Did you just call me old? I really prefer the word 'experienced'.

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.

If I wasn't acting, I have no clue what I'd be doing 'cause I have no other talent.

I've always been a fan of or desired to or responded to variety. I like variety in life, so variety in work is a must.

You're not going to be able to look like anyone else, no matter how hard you try, unless you're a mimic, then you're not acting, you're just mimicking. You can't go on being John Wayne, that's John Wayne. So you're not going to steal from John Wayne. I'm not going to steal from John Wayne and you're not going to come back and say 'Didn't you get that from the circus?' You know. But he is one of those people who instructs me, whom I look up to - whom I think is one of the masters of his craft that I am so enamoured of.

I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that's, of course, wonderful. I'm really more interested in the nomination than in the award, because I think the nomination just puts you within a group of outstanding actors.