Having gandchildren you see the world through much broader perspectives. And you're more aware of your actions your thoughts and how it will affect your family. And the families around your family. You have to be a lot more careful. But you also relax a little bit. Because, you know, you've done your duty. I've reproduced and my reproductions have reproduced.
There's no excuse to hit a woman... Ever. Not even in a movie role, because you might really like it. And then what?
I just wanted to be a scientist
I don't believe in premarital sex. It enabled me to date three or four women at the same time, because as long as I wasn't having sex with them, I could always just walk away.
I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know
The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife.
When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they're making honey in there.
I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power
Every little job becomes a dream, and you don't recall it anymore, and maybe you might have a deja vu moment, but it's like something you dreamed earlier
You just drop a character like this that and the other and it's done.
In the Twenties, it wasn't a remarkable thing for a singer to be an actor, or even to be involved in politics. If this is our roots, how can you blame the branches for following the course of the roots.
The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.
We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there's another side that can be as harsh and as ugly as the darkest thing you could imagine seeing.
I don't have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job.
The truth is, the personal ends up becoming part of your professional. As an actor, much of your work happens at home as you try things out on your family. Sometimes you stay in character unbeknownst to you and keep practicing.
It's just me and my guitar, and the rhythm's from there, and the poetry of life.
They say everybody gets 15 minutes. I hope I'm just inside the first minute and the next 14 go really slow.
I'm trying to make enough money where I can be financially independent and be able to go and just pursue that thing that everybody really needs, just pursue my family and the cause of my family
And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula.
The Oscar is the fantasy that you're afraid to believe in, but in the secrecy of your dark room, you dream and wait for it.
I'm damn near 37 years old, and I'm jumping up and down on the bed like my 10-year-old. I was a wild man
I found from working on the film that I am a bigot, at times. And that I am also a coward, at times.
The only thing that really matters in the initial part of my career, the worst mistake I've ever made was try to do things to please the audience thinking how the audience is going to respond if I do this.
My life's experiences, I've always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what's going to happen oftentimes before it happened when it's involving me
I don't think President Obama has been that revolutionary in reaching out to ethnic communities. President Reagan did a lot for the black community that people don't realize.
