I avoid seeing myself while I'm working on role so I won't see "me."

It [love about acting] is all about role playing - the same thing you do when you're a kid, when you play with dolls or toys and make up stories. I never grew out of it.

If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others.

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

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.

I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe.