Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.
We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.
We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
I don't really view communism as a bad thing.
My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.
When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.
I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are she's going to end up looking like me.
All I really want to do is just keep acting, and some of it will stink, and some of it will be really good, and maybe when I'm 85 and presenting an Oscar like Bette Davis did, I can look back and say, 'It was okay, I did all right.'
That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.
It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.
I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.
If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.
I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it.
I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done.
And I don't believe that I have to stay on one side of the fence or the other. I don't believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy.
I have the strangest time to get cast in anything. 'Ghost' was the same thing. Six months I had to wait for them to decide they had seen everybody possible. Why not? What limits me? I'm black? Oh, am I black?
If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests.
Born ham, that's basically me.
