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

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.

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.

Yes, you’ve got to sing from the depths of the heart.

Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

Where are we really going? Always home.

O’er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold- One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

Width of life is more important than length of life.