And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous.

I'm always trying new things and learning new things. If there isn't anything more you can learn - go off and die.

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

Working on stage is really a great voice developer.

If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

If you're going to play a brain surgeon, you just have to learn how to say the words. You don't have to go and learn how to cut open somebody's scalp. I think acting is acting. Being is something else.