Sam [L.Jackson] never asks for another take because he knows what he's doing. He gives you what he thinks is the best take, and he does it on the first take.

You know me. It's my duty to please that booty.

I've made a way to allow myself to do big films, small films, dramas, comedies, action films, horror films, or whatever interests me, as a movie-goer. I like watching myself in movies. I want to choose movies that allow me to enjoy myself, the way that I want to entertain myself.

I've never considered myself a comedian. I'm a comedic actor.

Everything that I've gone through informs me and my opinions in a way, I guess because I am a child of segregation. I lived through it. I lived in it. I was of it.

The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.

If you do not have courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of your other virtues.