People often forget our emotional contribution to relationships and to marriage and that might be a completely sexist comment but, what I tried not to do [in "Fences"] is, I tried to just put that monologue as part of my stream of consciousness.

When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.

It's always hard to be private in public, which is what acting is because you have to do thing really emotionally naked.

And I sit in my jacuzzi with my script.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.

On stage you never watch yourself. You just experience it, and then you go home, and you feel pretty good if you gave a pretty good performance or crappy if you didn't. But in TV and film, you actually have to experience it while you're doing it, and then you have to watch it. And then when you're watching it, you watch it with a different sensibility than how you experienced it.

People are just not impressed by me at home.