Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It's not a big deal. It makes me happy.

Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.

Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.

Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you're donating blood.

I see myself as a storyteller. So, when I read something, I see the story, and I see it on screen, in my head, in a certain way. I always want to see it and see me in it.

Everything that I've gone through informs me and my opinions in a way, I guess because I am a child of segregation. I lived through it. I lived in it. I was of it.

I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.

I run into a lot of kids who are either on R&R, or on their way to Iraq. They all know who I am and are fans, but they're kids! I am yet to meet one that's over 23. Yet they're full-time warriors.

Everybody likes an extraordinary person or likes to think that they would be great with a superpower in an ordinary world.

Not everything's made to win an Academy Award.

I used to like watching Helen Mirren's early films, because she was always naked. It's titillating.

I love comic books and I love anime.

Lifelong readers continue to read, finding in books the means to enjoy life or endure it

I don't understand how people live without creating.

I don't run around shooting people. Much. I only shoot two people a year. Maybe.

I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'

I trust most people. Not producers.

What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.

I'm as serious as a heart attack.