All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.
I just wanted to be a scientist
The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can.
Having gandchildren you see the world through much broader perspectives. And you're more aware of your actions your thoughts and how it will affect your family. And the families around your family. You have to be a lot more careful. But you also relax a little bit. Because, you know, you've done your duty. I've reproduced and my reproductions have reproduced.
There's no excuse to hit a woman... Ever. Not even in a movie role, because you might really like it. And then what?
I am an engineer, but what I find important and necessary is that you just learn things as you go along.
I don't believe in premarital sex. It enabled me to date three or four women at the same time, because as long as I wasn't having sex with them, I could always just walk away.
The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife.
When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they're making honey in there.
I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power
Every little job becomes a dream, and you don't recall it anymore, and maybe you might have a deja vu moment, but it's like something you dreamed earlier
You just drop a character like this that and the other and it's done.
The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.
We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there's another side that can be as harsh and as ugly as the darkest thing you could imagine seeing.
I don't have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job.
The truth is, the personal ends up becoming part of your professional. As an actor, much of your work happens at home as you try things out on your family. Sometimes you stay in character unbeknownst to you and keep practicing.
It's just me and my guitar, and the rhythm's from there, and the poetry of life.
They say everybody gets 15 minutes. I hope I'm just inside the first minute and the next 14 go really slow.
I'm trying to make enough money where I can be financially independent and be able to go and just pursue that thing that everybody really needs, just pursue my family and the cause of my family
The only thing that really matters in the initial part of my career, the worst mistake I've ever made was try to do things to please the audience thinking how the audience is going to respond if I do this.
And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula.
Don't just view me as an actor.
If we [black people] do not show up and support the march towards cinematic equality, the march towards being on a level at - we don't even have to be higher than whites, but to be viewed in the same common thread of this is a professional, these are stories that people are interested in, instead of being fed the same old BS dogma that's been fed and the studios have used.
I knew that one movie could either kill my career or give birth to it. It's the same thing with Nelson. If you fail at Nelson [movie about nelson Mandela], you don't get to comeback and say, 'Well, I was trying. Let me do it again.' There are no re-takes.
My life's experiences, I've always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what's going to happen oftentimes before it happened when it's involving me
"It's just me and my guitar, and the rhythm's from there, and the poetry of life."
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