He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.
People's relationship to what they want from theatre is changing. People, including me, are still looking for the next STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. And people can't or won't write that anymore.
I'm drawn to roles that people don't think I'm right for.
The comedies I have been in that have been successful were the ones where the set was the most tense. It seems that the comedies where you have a real nice time on the set, the film just sits there on the screen. Now that just may be the pictures I have made, I don't know.
It is safer and wiser to cure unhealthy rivalry than to suppress it.
I think the most harmful belief passed on to me - not always directly - was the belief that whatever I did as a Negro, however much we Negroes achieved, despite the presence of some enlightened whites, white society as a whole enjoyed being racists in the secret core of their being and would never, ever give that up.
Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing
Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.