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" Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President. "
Life
Thought
See
" I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies. "
Member
Going
Think
" I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs. "
Because
Got
Run
" If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it. "
Your
Use
Voice
" I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist. "
Artist
Day
Too Much
" I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.' "
Man
Time
First Time
" I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.' "
Stand Up
Daughter
Day
" I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact. "
World
House
Eye
" I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill. "
Movies
Love
Look
" I love comic books and I love anime. "
I Love
Love
Books
" I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.' "
Son
History
Good
" I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want. "
Me
Respect
Anger
" I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years. "
Kind
You
Yourself
" I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger. "
People
Stronger
Mistake
" I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around. "
Classic
Going
Fortunate
" I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up. "
Jail
Locked
Locked Up
" I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.' "
Walk
Simple
Own
" Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money. "
Kiss
Right
Now
" My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years. "
Important
Parents
Me
" Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed. "
Changed
Movies
Life
" People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun. "
Fun
Election
Saturday
" People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you. "
Soul
Racism
Know
" The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did. "
Advice
Best
More
" The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot. "
Good
Kind
Missed
" We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us. "
Lost
Need
Change
" We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.' "
King
Way
Long
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