"Viola [Davis] is one of the great actors of her generation. She has one of these moments in the theater that I don't even know how to describe."
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"I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies."
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"We've all had some level of injustice, whether 20 years in prison, or 20 minutes sitting in your car waiting for a police officer to determine your future. Or even a few moments in an elevator with some woman clutching her purse thinking you're going to rob her ¾ regardless of celebrity, that has happened to me."
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"I got on my knees and sort of communicated with the spirits. When I came out, I was in charge. I couldn't have acted that, I couldn't have written that."
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"My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!"
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"[Martin] Scorsese probably could have directed Schindler's List and [Steven] Spielberg probably could have directed Goodfellas. But it's as much to do with the difference in culture as it is with race."
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"When you trust the director you want to trust his or her choices. I don't want to say, 'No, I don't like this girl or that guy," when the director really loves them. No, you want to go with what the director likes."
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"When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it" (94) - Danny Glover, "The Fundamental Things"
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"If it ain't on a page, it ain't on a stage."
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"Religion to me is when man gets ahold of spirituality: "My god is right, yours is wrong." Religion to me is the human condition. "If you're a Muslim, you can't be a Christian." That to me is religion."
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"You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity."
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"I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me."
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"When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!"
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"Denzel Washington: I like the collaboration, I like seeing people do well, so I really plan to direct the rest of my days."
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"I don't look back, no. Maybe when I'm older; people say, 'What's your favorite film?' I say, 'My next one.' I'm not interested in sitting around; I just don't, never have."
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"Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around."
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"I am not going to bury my son! My son is going to bury me!"
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"Don't get all sentimental on me, Makes me think I'm gonna die."
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"There's racism everywhere."
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"I never tell anyone what to take away from a movie."
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