I don't do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it's funny, it's funny.

Somebody once said to me after I'd done "Deep Impact," "What is it like to play a Black president," and I said, "I didn't play a Black president. I played a president. I just happened to be Black. There's a difference.

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.

I understand that when Gary Oldman was in that suit [Batman], sweat would just drip off of him where they had to have holes in the gloves or something.

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

And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.