I was told that I was good in my dance movement classes and that I should concentrate on dance because it would enhance my ability to get acting work.

Acting means living, it's all I do.

Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.

Race seems to me to be less and less a subject worth discussing.

Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.

The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.

Hey, if I don't have a job, I don't know why I bother to get up. Any time the phone rings, I'm ready to go. What else am I going to do? See, I've never retired. I don't even know what it means.