“I’m living proof being born poor doesn’t mean you can’t find financial success.”

You’re going to relegate my history to a month.

I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.

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 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.

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

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

Give me something interesting to play and I’m happy.

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

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

The better the actor, usually the safer you feel working with.

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

Acting means living, it’s all I do and all I’m good at. If I weren’t getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.

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.

If you want to see a miracle, be the miracle.

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

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

I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and the broad financial system was very complex and difficult to predict.

We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.

Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933.

The crisis in Europe has affected the US economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence and pressuring US financial markets and institutions.

The impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime markets seems likely to be contained.

Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly.

Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.

September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.