And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.

I don't do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it's funny, it's funny.

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.

Every job's a challenge. The challenge is to do it and make it look right, like you belong there - wherever that is.

...if we get the right kind of energy, there are endless amounts. I think we should be developing every kind of alternative fuel that is available to us. That includes hydrogen to soybeans, from solar to wind. Whatever we can find that is going to help us clean up the environment we should be working really hard on developing.

The first thing that always pops into my head regarding our president, is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him... They just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white - very white; American, Kansas, middle of America. There is no argument about who he is, or what he is. America's first black president hasn't arisen yet. He's not America's first black president. He's America's first mixed-race president.

I was very lucky once I got started with a career. I happened to get some really good parts to play with some really good people to play with.