"The thing is, I never see my characters as psychopaths. I see them as really crippled victims who just happen to do bad things. And I never see them as bad guys; I see them as darker characters. I never see anything as good or bad; it's more light or dark, and the in-between is the grey."

"I think every actor has their list of roles that were near misses. I've had my share."

"I think every actor has their list of roles that were near misses. I've had my share. I was very close and almost cast in Philip Seymour Hoffman's 'Capote.'"

"It's what I've always wanted to do and each part you play gets you closer and closer to the roles that you dreamed of playing."

"The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting."

"A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant."

"We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us."

"Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far."