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" I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars. "

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" Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust. "

" I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker. "

" I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked. "

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" I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class. "

" Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown. "

" It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry. "

" I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about. "

" If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment. "

" American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information. "

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" You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them. "

" There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things. "

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" I don't care about Clinton's haircuts or his affairs or any of that stuff. "

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" I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself. "

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" I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships. "

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" There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers. "