It [love about acting] is all about role playing - the same thing you do when you're a kid, when you play with dolls or toys and make up stories. I never grew out of it.

Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty

When I was a kid, I was a cowboy. I had a cap pistol, and I'd get up in the morning and strap it on before I got ready.

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.

The trick to any profession is making it look easy.

The public feels that if it's on the Internet and you can access it, you deserve it. You haven't committed any kind of crime. We may even have to rename piracy. But in any case, we have to confront it.

My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them.