Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.

I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.

The first thing that always pops into my head regarding our president, is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him... They just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white - very white; American, Kansas, middle of America. There is no argument about who he is, or what he is. America's first black president hasn't arisen yet. He's not America's first black president. He's America's first mixed-race president.

Audiences believe what you believe. It's a matter of believing yourself. If I believe me, then you've got no choice. None at all.

When I was growing up, I didn't see me in the movies except in certain lesser roles. If it wasn't funny, I wasn't there. Then Sidney Poitier came along, and he wasn't funny. He was just good. There's me. So that was my pattern.

Actors cannot work against each other. It's totally impossible.