Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.

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

Never give up the ganja.

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it.

Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.