Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions

Sitting in the movie theater watching "Star Wars," I've never had an experience with any form of entertainment that was like that. It was almost spiritual. I couldn't believe that someone's mind created that. And, right, it felt like George Lucas had a piano that was playing my emotions, and he could go ahead and do whatever he wanted and make me lean forward if he wanted, or he could make me go oh, or he could make me hide my face.

On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'

There are so many people who have lived and died before you. You will never have a new problem; you're not going to ever have a new problem. Somebody wrote the answer down in a book somewhere.

Life is dangerous and you're not gonna live a life without risk.

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.