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.

I don't have to do anything. The character is shaped on the page.

I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was....I always wanted to be a movie actor.

Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy.

Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.

The bigger point here is that golf is a good metaphor for one's life. The challenge of golf for me is trying to learn new rules. It's something you always have to work at; you don't get perfect at golf. It's the never-ending quest for betterment.

Insanity is being shit on, beat down, coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and a key to release it.