Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.

I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.

So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

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

When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.