The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.

Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.

All I really want to do is just keep acting, and some of it will stink, and some of it will be really good, and maybe when I'm 85 and presenting an Oscar like Bette Davis did, I can look back and say, 'It was okay, I did all right.'

Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.