If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.

The City of Angels is a microcosm of the world, and so living in L.A. makes me feel like a citizen of the world.

I think when I stop fighting, I die in a sense.

Even behind bars, even on Death Row, you can fail up, because life is about committing ourselves on a daily basis to the best in us. Freedom is a state of mind. Freedom is an attitude. Freedom is a spirit. You may be behind bars, but you still have the capacity to be free.

I think, for most of us is that once you get to a certain place in your career you're not having to elbow and knock people around and audition for parts.

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

I'm always fascinated by people from the Midwest, because it is so different than Hollywood, who discover at some point that they want to be in Hollywood.