I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.
I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.
I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.
And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous.
I gravitate towards gravitas.
Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.
It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.
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.
My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.
If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.
Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.
Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.
People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.
And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.
This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection.
Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.
People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out.
Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.
When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.
