I don't have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job.

I knew that one movie could either kill my career or give birth to it. It's the same thing with Nelson. If you fail at Nelson [movie about nelson Mandela], you don't get to comeback and say, 'Well, I was trying. Let me do it again.' There are no re-takes.

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.

If you're not going to do your job, get out of here. Don't mess up my work. This is how I feed my family.

The most important thing I can teach my kids is that you can't put your value in looks. Presence is based upon magnitude. You can pretend to have an air about you but it is quickly deflated, you cannot deflate presence. Presence walks into a room and surrounds and fills anything that's in that room without trying to demand it, it takes over. It can come from a smile. Like I said, love makes you beautiful. What is beautiful radiates.

My father always said that if you want oranges, you have to go to where the oranges grow.