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"Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen."
"You can't take credit for talent; you can only take credit for using it."
"Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible....Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor."
"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."
"But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it."
"Look at, look, the Tea Partiers, who are controlling the Republican Party....Their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term. What's, what does that, what underlines that? 'Screw the country. We're going to whatever we do to get this black man, we can, we're going to do whatever we can to get this black man outta here... It is a racist thing."
"I'm making a great effort because sometimes life is not enjoyable. Sometimes it's painful and sometimes it's stressful, sometimes it's agonizing even, so I think once you get around those humps: strive for pleasure and peace."
"The public feels that if it's on the Internet and you can access it, you deserve it. You haven't committed any kind of crime. We may even have to rename piracy. But in any case, we have to confront it."
"I always knew that someone was going to come at me with a script to play God. It's just one of those things, the way your career is unfolding and all the talk about gravitas etc etc, so I had a strong feeling that someone was going to offer me the part of God. I was totally prepared to say, 'Thanks but no thanks,' unless it was a comedy."
"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."
"Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort."
"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."
"The trick to any profession is making it look easy."
"There is no such thing as homophobia. It is not a fear. It is you being an asshole."
"If you dream you've got to dream that it's going to happen. Remember that. If you dream you have to imagine that it will actually happen."
"Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable."
"That's really just the worst part of life really, you get bracketed somewhere and the next thing you know people are saying, 'No. No. That's not the type. Get me so and so.' I'm not a type. I'm an actor."
"I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man."
"That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real."
"Actors cannot work against each other. It's totally impossible."