Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.

They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.

The treasure shouldn't do the hunting, and you're a treasure.

Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.

Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.

I got some news for you. One, there is no Jesus. Two, there is no God. Three, mind your own business and everything works out.

I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

All capitalists should be like Warren Buffett, and he says he should be taxed more.

There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.

A lot of people don't want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama.