I don't understand how people live without creating.

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.

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.

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 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.

I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.

Those that have loved longest love best.

I never did one thing right in my life, you know that? Not one. That takes skill.

You know me. It's my duty to please that booty.