"My body is but wax and wick for flame. When the candle burns out, the light shines elsewhere."

“Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.”

“When I look at myself in the mirror, I don't see the bad guy.”

“You have to be willing to put everything you've got towards the project. That to me is very important. And it may not be part of the fad, being the clichéd kind of film that's going to be successful.”

“I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.”

“The theater is a school we shall never have done with studying and learning.”

“There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the flesh. To the brim.”

“Whatever you do in your life, try to become a kind, and wise human being.”

“Nobody black had learned anything from the Letter from the Birmingham Jail or from the I Have a Dream speech. That was a revelation of white people.”