I'm easy going for the most part but sometimes in the morning if I didn't sleep well I can be kind of grumpy. But my grumpiness doesn't have that much to do with my dissatisfaction with my station in life.

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.

How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!

My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.

Very often, you know, you stop walking because you say, 'Well, I'm tired of climbing this hill. I'm never going to get to the top.' And you're only two steps from the top.

That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants.

That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.