Actors have no color. That's the art form.

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.

Just call me black, if you want to call me anything.

I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.

I believe strongly that most people in this country U.S. don't want a totalitarian state...And when conservatives say, "Get the government out of my backyard," the reality is, you can't say that and put somebody in the White House who's gonna be in your business.

It you want to be somebody, If you want to go some where, you've got to wake up and pay attention

All I really want to do is just keep acting, and some of it will stink, and some of it will be really good, and maybe when I'm 85 and presenting an Oscar like Bette Davis did, I can look back and say, 'It was okay, I did all right.'