People don't want to hang around someone that you don't know how they're going to react to anything you do or say.

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.

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.

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.

You do a movie. However long it lasts, it begins and it ends in a relatively short period of time. In a given period of time, let's say a year, you can have three, four, or five different experiences which is exciting.