I remember the actor Dale Robertson said he quit acting when he got tired of having to hold his stomach in. I feel that way sometimes.

Confidence, knowing for certain that the person making the call has your safety foremost in their mind. And knowing that the job you are about to take on is the right thing to do, that...

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play’s the thing – not the 18-35 year old male age group.

Almost all the job opportunities were reflective of the stereotypical perception of blacks that had infected the whole consciousness of the country.

In my case, the body of work stands for itself… I think my work has been representative of me as a man.

I have a whole other side that has yet to be seen on screen.

As a journalist I’m comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.

I tell you one of the great things about this movie is, with all that’s going on around the world right now, it’s just good to go to a movie where you don’t have to...

I’ve been very fortunate in the things I’ve had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the same types of memories as everyone else.

You don’t want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.

Straight people say, ‘You know you’re just gay,’ and gay people say, ‘You know you’re just gay.’ There is such a thing as bisexual!

The problem with making larger movies, five or six months, is that whose got the energy to keep themselves in that place for so long?

I want to make someone walk straight, but I’ve left my sons nothing but wars.

I think it was Fox, actually; Fox, the studio, which had sold the rights to the television show, as I understand it, but had retained the film rights.

Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I’m one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it’s not a driver – art imitates life.

We really have to reconsider what it is that a public person gives up. Why does a public person give up all his or her rights to privacy?

And I’ve been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.

I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it’s six degrees of separation.

On some level in acting, what you’re trying to find is truth, because when it’s true is when it’s also funny.

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs – and I’m not the first person to say this,...

One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.

The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive.

I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you’re so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won’t get you on a bus.

But I can’t remember who is in my CD player now.

When human beings stop progressing at an endeavor, they stop enjoying it and move on to something else. Not golfers. Masochists, all of them.

Personality. Gotta have some kind of personality and you don’t wear your personality on your body. It’s gotta come from someplace.

Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I’m pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.

You know the people who are there are there because they love the music. It has nothing to do with Saved by the Bell or any of that crap.

I had such a good time working with John Woo and John Travolta, and it was so professional. I want to work with people who are real professionals.

I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid.

Stuff with a group, stuff where there are other people around, I’ll try that.

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

Acting, directing and producing in a film when you have no budget and only nineteen days makes it extremely, extremely difficult.

I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are...

I only have 8-10 kids in my class. I read the press articles to them about Lost in Space and tell them about it. I’m like their little internet.

It seems like the opportunity just increases exponentially. There doesn’t seem to be much stopping.

Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don’t think so. It’s modern. It’s a part of today’s world.

I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.

I don’t like to dwell all day over one scene as you do in a big feature.

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

There’s a discipline. When you take someone’s portrait, you don’t have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that’s the image that you took.

It’s so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we’re wrong, and often we’re dead wrong, we miss the truth.

Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It’s seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of...

The only way to ensure a film is going to sell is put Will Smith in it and you open it in 3,000 theaters and make sure we have all the top promotional spots in...

They put me in a whole body suit, from my neck to my ankles. It was so bad, I couldn’t straighten my legs.

I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I’m not a trained artist, I couldn’t sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone.

I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they’ll make another one.