I believe in my children. I believe in human beings. I believe in the goodness that is in human beings. I believe in many, many things that I cannot prove. I believe that there's the world of the seen and the world of the unseen.
As a movie star, you get good tables at restaurants.
I really don't know that I'm iconic. I don't even know that people think I'm cool.
You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain.
I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine.
My mother is quite a woman. She would push me, and when I got tired of her pushing, I'd say: 'Leave me alone. Don't push so much.'
When I first read 'Boyz,' I cried. It could have been about some kids in Warsaw, Poland. I knew it was good, but I had no idea what it would do to me.
I didn't have much of a childhood, but that's O.K. I have a livelihood.
I didn't want to be a big star. I wanted to be a really good actor.
I can't remember a picture that has expressed black attitudes and personal relationships as vividly as we've done in 'Cadence.'
I think any city that does the Olympics takes on the world and has to grow and has to kind of assimilate all sorts of folks.
John Wick is not a guy that asks for help, so when he goes to somebody for help, whoever that is, you know he's a serious cat.
My vocation is I do what I do. I'm an actor; that's what I do.
It's always a collective group of people coming together to oppose those things which are fundamentally contrary to our basic humanity.
If you like rock and roll, if you like rhythm and blues, if you like jazz, if you like hip-hop, you might be black-ish.
It's very difficult to set a film in one setting without giving the audience some intensity and some relief.
'The Fugitive Kind,' 'Rope,' 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' - I watched all these as a way of reminding myself that you can do a movie based on a play. You can do a movie that stays in one place for a long stretch.
When I came into my adulthood, I recognized how fortunate I was to be doing what I loved to do.
Philanthropic work reminds you of everyone's common humanity, and that's really the common denominator for everyone.
I don't think Othello is a jealous man - he is a man who has been deceived by another person, just as everybody in the play is deceived by that person... The playwright uses the word 'jealousy' over and over and over again, but I don't think it has anything to do with being jealous.
