I grew up in the South but I started dancing in my twenties when I got out of the Air Force, and studying dance, you're surrounded by gay guys all the time. You get to know them and you have to shift gears!

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

From early childhood, my thrust was to get into the movies.

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.

Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.

The odds are lousy that I actually said something attributed to me.

I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it.