“Audiences believe what you believe. It’s a matter of believing yourself. If I believe me, then you’ve got no choice. None at all.”

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

Get busy livin’ or get busy dyin’.

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

How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.

Let’s honor all of these heroes by being of service to others, as they did.

Together we are strong.

Your best posture is your next posture.

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

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

Forgiveness liberates the soul, it removes fear.

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 know what my favorite film of mine is but I think the most important film I was in was ‘Glory’.

Reading one book a day to your child can change the trajectory of their future.

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.

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

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

I can’t imagine working without and audience.

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.

Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they’ll reach an audience or not.

It’s always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

The audience is the barometer of the truth.

Of course, it’s a great joy to be able to perform. And that love affair with an audience, where you give love and they give love back – it’s a romantic situation.

The audience is not your boss. They are your collaborators and when you collaborate with someone you don’t have to listen to everything they think or say.