And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.

Some suggestions for you :

It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

Black history is American history.

I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.

Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.

I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.

I gravitate towards gravitas.

I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do.

I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'.

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.

Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright?

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.