"We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can."

"In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live."

"I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try."

"Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show."

"It is not length of life, but depth of life."

"I mean, I couldn't ask for a better life, man."

"I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance."

"That's when it really came together for me that I was in a Bond film, to have my own spy car!"