I can remember when I first got to los Angeles . I didn't have a car, I didn't have any money. I was walking the streets, you know, trying to get from place to place on foot almost. Sometimes, you know, you say, how am I ever going to get from here to there? There are a lot of people still having that dream and not being able to get there. So you never know. The idea is to keep on tap dancing, though.

Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin.

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

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.

Don't be afraid of what you want. This is your time. The barriers are down.

It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.