“I’m only the messenger.”

But somehow I’ve gotta find a way to play this.

My two kids take a lot of my focus, which I’m grateful for.

An actor always wants to sink his teeth into something.

I’ve never bought a boxed set DVD or anything like that.

In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them,

The world isn’t what you think it is.

A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don’t know what art is.

I lay the clothes out on the floor with the shoes and socks,

It’s easy to actually get the ink on the page

On the last day of every character I’ve ever played

And I have to find a way to emotionally survive playing this.

So that it looks like the character has literally vanished. That’s the way you have to leave them.

As an actor, often you’re stuck with these scenes in which a great period of time is in between them – for example, if you do a biopic, it might be a year, it might be a decade, you never know.

You mortgage yourself sometimes.

And its up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.

You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent.

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.

All I want is you and me wrapped in embrace for all eternity.

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

God gives us our relatives – thank God we can choose our friends.

It’s a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?

The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.

The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.

We’re really just the frosting on a cake and we don’t know what’s inside the cake.