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" People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling. "

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" 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. "

" I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in. "

" Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance. "

" 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. "

" I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it. "

" Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy. "

" Black history is American history. "

" All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that. "

" I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. "

" I gravitate towards gravitas. "

" The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit. "

" People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies. "

" And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in. "

" 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. "

" I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'. "

" 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. "

" The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it. "

" One of the things you can always depend on - this is one of the truths of the universe, and you heard it first from here - whatever we decide we want to do is what we do. "

" Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero. "

" This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection. "

" I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring. "

" As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less. "

" I'm not one for blaspheming, but that one made me laugh. "

" Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them. "

" My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston. "

" Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better. "

" It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help. "

" Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up. "

" I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture. "

" 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. "