So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.

I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.

Of all my father's teachings, the most enduring was the one about the true measure of a man. That true measure was how well he provided for his children, and it stuck with me as if it were etched in my brain.

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth.