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"If you're going to play a brain surgeon, you just have to learn how to say the words. You don't have to go and learn how to cut open somebody's scalp. I think acting is acting. Being is something else."
"I was raised in Mississippi, so heat and humidity is my bread and butter. It keeps me going. I can't stand cold weather."
"I think the best thing somebody ever did to me was my mother opening her legs and squirting me out."
"Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law. And that man's feeble attempt to lay down the principles of deceny."
"In my home, who is my boss? If you ask my wife she'll say certainly not her. She claims that she can't make me do anything and so she's not my boss. I am. I'm pretty sure, maybe."
"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."
"Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright?"
"The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him."
"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."
"I'm easy going for the most part but sometimes in the morning if I didn't sleep well I can be kind of grumpy. But my grumpiness doesn't have that much to do with my dissatisfaction with my station in life."
"What do I want to do? Acting wise? Well, there's a western that I want to do. There's a lot of producing that I want to do, projects that I have stacked up that are in my office that I'd like to get done."
"Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies."
"I'm a firm believer that things happen as they should. The universe unfolds just as it's supposed to."
"As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less."
"The odds are lousy that I actually said something attributed to me."
"Somebody once said to me after I'd done "Deep Impact," "What is it like to play a Black president," and I said, "I didn't play a Black president. I played a president. I just happened to be Black. There's a difference."
"People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies."
"One universe, four forces, billions of galaxies. The precision and complexity of our world is enough to make even the famous cosmologist go just a little bit crazy. How does it all fit together? Is there a single, overarching design to the cosmos? And if we find it, will we glimpse the mind of God?"
"I don't think that anyone learns anything. Well, I mean, you do always learn something if you have your eyes and ears open. You do learn something from every outing, every time that you go for it. But for me what actors do is interact and that's why you have to do that."
"It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help."