Doing 'CSI: N.Y.' is not 'CSI.' Doing 'CSI: Miami' is not 'CSI: N.Y.,' it's 'CSI: Miami.' It has a very, very specific tone. It has a very specific look. It has a specific way in which they tell their stories that's different from 'CSI: N.Y.' and 'CSI.'
Shooting a film with seven to eight actors together is complicated sometimes because you have to cover everybody.
I don't ever get to the point where anything is old hat.
I had two times in my life where I wanted to give up everything I worked for, but God gave me a job.
I think I've certainly learned a lot of lessons in humility and continue to work on that part of myself.
You can't be bad when you're working with a kid. They have the instincts that all great actors have.
Acting is a childlike thing. To act well, you have to be childlike in order to free yourself.
Some characters need to be more performance-orientated; some, you have to be still.
Projects don't need to be special for me to sign up, but I do need them to have something that speaks to me in some way.
Things have become considerably better for men of colour since I was born. But I'd say that we'll be really getting somewhere when things get better for women of colour.
Anytime we're talking about Thurgood Marshall, that's a good thing, I think, because it gives us an opportunity to go back, look at the history, and recognize what his contributions were.
I don't necessarily go out and try to do something that's going to be just something that will please the audience. I'm not interested in doing something where I get the most people to come see the movie at the same time and they get the biggest explosion. I'm not interested in that.
The commercial I did for Kia was hilarious and unexpected, so that, I think, is also another way of signaling to the audience that there's more to me than Morpheus.
I think there's going to be many special episodes of 'Blackish.'
I work with my instincts. I don't have a process that I learned in an acting class whereby I break a script down or whereby I do a certain kind of research.
Having 50 to 60 years on the planet should give you a sense of how to master the way you look and live your life.
I try to meditate.
The 50s are the age of elegance. That's kind of my intention when I get dressed: casual elegance.
We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit.
I have a relationship with the southern hemisphere that's a really good one. I love it there.
