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.

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.

I've always been a fan of or desired to or responded to variety. I like variety in life, so variety in work is a must.

I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe.

"You are the actor, and I understand we already had our sit down, you explained your concept, your view," so I said, "Okay, I'm in your hands." That means that if you've got to nudge me a little bit to the right I move to the right, just from the pressure, weight, but you won't have to touch me at all. You can come and go "Okay, you want me over here a little bit more," so no pressure on us at all that's easy to do.

All you have to do is believe, then you will see everything.

I've never had any intimate relationships with a dolphin.