Mountain gorses, do ye teach us. . . . That the wisest word man reaches Is the humblest he can speak?
Life is not a spectator sport.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. . . All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because I was the only black man out there. . . I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
Older actresses apparently have no sense of humor about being older actresses.
For my prom, I was so fancy, I got t a suit tailored. I wanted a three-piece suit. I thought it would be cool to wear all black - black shirt, black tie, I figured it would be the coolest thing I've ever done. That was my first suit. I put the suit on two years later and it was so big on me and absurd and didn't fit. I still have it. I won't throw it out. It's too fun. It reminds me where I come from. Actually, I have an evolution of suits in my closet. It starts with that one and goes up to the suits that I get to have now.
I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 12 or 13. I used to see people smashing glasses over each other. I was never tough. I was scared of them.
I have a lot of anger about my childhood - being hard of hearing and my relationship with my father.