It's all about work when you reach up, tap in and step on that field. You don't mess around when you go through that gate.
If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.
I always wanted to do films. I'd gone to New York early in 1976 and did a lot of theater, but I really wanted to chase the paths of people like Pacino and Lemmon and those guys. Alan Arkin. Film was where I wanted to go.