My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.
From James Earl Jones
It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.
I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?
I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.
I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.
Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.
Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers. I'm just on a journey. Wherever I run across a job, I say, 'Okay, I'll do that.'
I consider myself a novice film actor.
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