"I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness"
"Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift"
"You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity"
"My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!"
"My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back"
"In Los Angeles, everyone is a star"
"I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule"
"I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it"
"I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good"
"I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith"
"Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are"
"You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it"
"You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib"
"Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century"
"If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her"
"If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it"
"I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies"
"Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child"
"If you don't trust the pilot, don't go"
"I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me"
"I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it"
"I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated"
"I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially"
"Luck is where opportunity meets preparation"
"I'm not in the loop; I don't know any actors, really, just the ones I work with"
"I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood"
"I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter"
"Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation"
"My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque"
"When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!"
"In any profession it gets to be a grind"
"Growing up I didn't watch movies"
"Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life"
"I've worked with children all my life"
"I've worked in a factory. I was a garbage man. I worked in a post office. It's not that long ago. I like to think that I'm just a regular guy"
