I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.

I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.

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.