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I found my voice in books.
Actors never discuss future plans.
The one constant in life is baseball
I consider myself a novice film actor.
You don't build a bond without being present.
Love is just love, it can never be explained.
We children learned responsibility automatically.
There is a very fine line between love and nausea.
There's nothing I would retire for, so I won't retire.
If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.
So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.
Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.
Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning.
Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.
I'd like to film a British commercial; they're better than American ones.
The last thing I want to be is a rich black superstar. I just want to act.
Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.
No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.
I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?
There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.
Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.
I agree with my father, Albert Einstein, don't believe every quote you read on the internet.
I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.
My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.
More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.
I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.
Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.
I love doing commercials! Usually, they have enough money that they can take time and photograph it well.
People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.
The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.
Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall in love with.
In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.
Just so you know, there's a space that only you can fill. Just so you know, I loved you then, I guess I always will.
We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that.
I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.
In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.
When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound.
Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.
Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.
You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.
You weren't going to the theatre to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.
I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don’t know how I can ever express my gratitude for that because my parents would have been a mess.
I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.
And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in too, but began to blame everything on race.
I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know.
I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried directing and decided I had better stick to acting.