I don’t do cold. My reaction to cold is drastic. I’m a southern boy.

You criticize without understanding. You seek only to address your own personal feelings. That is selfish thinking, Zindzi. It does not serve the nation.

When a magician waves his hand and says, ‘This is where the magic is happening,’ the real trick is happening somewhere else. Misdirection.

I believe it doesn’t really matter where you work as long as you work. Keep sharpening your teeth.

Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible…Just legalize it and tax it like we do liquor.

If I stay at home, I’m not famous. I’m only famous when I’m out in the streets, so I don’t go out on the streets much.

If you dream you’ve got to dream that it’s going to happen. Remember that. If you dream you have to imagine that it will actually happen.

I’m not one for blaspheming, but that one made me laugh.

I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it.

Actors cannot work against each other. It’s totally impossible.

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

Was I always going to be here? No, I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what’s going to happen.

Kindness in thinking or giving, creates profoundness and happiness. Kindness in saying creates an everlasting love.

I’ve been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It’s boring

I don’t get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe

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.

Truth has many shades. It’s not a matter of black and white, but gray.

My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them.

I’m a firm believer that things happen as they should. The universe unfolds just as it’s supposed to.

Is listening important? I can’t think of a single walk of life where it wouldn’t be.

If you think about the very nature of life, I mean, on the very beginning, the development of the first cell divided into two cells. The sole purpose of life has been to pass on what was learned.

You don’t know how much you appreciate your privacy until you don’t have it.

If you’re not living on the edge then you’re taking up a little too much space.

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don’t get it, I can’t do it

It’s what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That’s all and that’s the hardest thing.

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.

How can we change the world? One random act of kindness.

All you have to do is believe, then you will see everything

I don’t do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it’s funny, it’s funny.

That’s your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.

The accident was a horrible thing – but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It’s a happy irony if there is such a thing. I’m proud to have known him

And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they’re going to go and see the story you’re in.

Insanity is being shit on, beat down, coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and a key to release it.

I think you take a job, you owe it as much passion as the job itself demands. And most jobs demand that you be totally committed.

Stage is really hard work. You’ve got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.

Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin.

Every job’s a challenge. The challenge is to do it and make it look right like you belong there – wherever that is.

Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.

All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.

The trick to any profession is making it look easy.

I am God. So it’s easy to play him. They say God is in all things. So if God is in me, then I am in God. Therefore, I am God. God does not exist without me.

I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

People hear that and say I’m being modest. But I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I’m doing and what I’m doing is channeling.

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.

I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that’s, of course, wonderful. I’m really more interested in the nomination than in the award, because I think the nomination just puts you within a group of outstanding actors.

Very often, you know, you stop walking because you say, ‘Well, I’m tired of climbing this hill. I’m never going to get to the top.’ And you’re only two steps from the top.

Once you’ve gotten the job, there’s nothing to it. If you’re an actor, you’re an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.

Donald Trump is the Honey Boo Boo of rich people.

Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn’t appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can’t see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.

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.

Did you just call me old? I really prefer the word ‘experienced’.

You can’t take credit for talent; you can only take credit for using it.

The highest power is the human mind. That’s where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.

Don’t be afraid of what you want. This is your time. The barriers are down

You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.

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

I only get one life, and I will not let Fibromyalgia take the joy from living it.

Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty.

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.

If you want to see a miracle, be the miracle

If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it’s a good thing to turn around and make it work for others.

The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically.

I gravitate towards gravitas.

In the harshest place on Earth,… love finds a way.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice.

Attacking people with disabilities is the lowest display of power I can think of.

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.

When you have made your choice, it is providence that is your guide. Good, bad, or indifferent. Your fate lies in that.

Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you.

I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

I hate the word homophobia. It’s not a phobia. You are not scared. You are an asshole.

I once heard a wise man say there are no perfect men. Only perfect intentions.

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

If you wake up and the snow is knee-deep outside, you are not filled with rage. It’s just something that you’ve got to cope with. If you’re living in a situation it’s the only situation that you know, and you’ve got to deal with it.

You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. ‘Have you found joy in your life?’ ‘Has your life brought joy to others?

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.

How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality.

I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

As long as you feel like a victim, you are one.

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 don’t have to work. I could stop and never have to worry about paying the rent. I’m working for the joy of doing it.

Don’t be different just for different’s sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.

One of the things you can always depend on, this is one of the truths of the universe. And you heard it first from here, whatever we decide we want to do is what we do.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that, I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

We humans are more concerned with having than with being.

Don’t be different just for different’s sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always

For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give in to peer pressure.

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

Challenge yourself; it’s the only path which leads to growth.

You can’t see heaven if you’re looking down.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.