We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school. . . I was desperate to communicate.
I'm curious about what makes people do things that they do, unless it's absolutely terrifying to me.
I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.
Since I've started to star in pictures I have always managed to retain my singularity of purpose when I got into the business, which was to be an artist, as an actor, more than anything else. But to get the certain kind of role you want, you have to be in a certain position in the business and it's dog-eat-dog and it gets very hairy and you can lose your point of view sometimes.
The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had.
I never voted for a president until I felt Obama had a dream and might pull it off, and that was the first time I ever voted for a president.
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who disbelieve, no amount of proof is sufficient.
In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.
It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.
To some extent, I have only lived to have something to outlive. By confiding these futile remembrances to paper, I am conscious of accomplishing the most important act of my life. I was predestined to Memory.