I ski and grew up skiing.

We have more guns in our country than citizens. I think we could with maybe 100 million fewer guns. And I think we'd be OK.

There are too many guns.

Our great nation put a man on the moon, but it can't train its cops to distinguish between an ordinary brown-skinned brother and a criminal.

I was a political science major in college because that's where my head was.

Some of my earliest heroes were congresswomen like Shirley Chisholm and Barbara Jordan.

When I started off as an actor, the last thing I wanted to do in the world was make money. I was under the impression, when I started off as an actor, that the more money I made, the more it would diminish from my creativity and my capacity to be an artist.

For me, an actor is a person who makes characters like a cobbler makes shoes.

My first-ever job was when I was 14 or 15 in Washington, D.C., a job that I got through Marion Barry's summer-youth-employment program. It was working in the locker room of a public swimming pool, deep inside Anacostia in Southeast D.C., about five to 10 minutes from my house.

I find that the work I do as an actor that's most challenging commands an athleticism or, certainly, a physicality. And also a rigor, a physical rigor.