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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can do more than anyone suspects. I pride myself on my versatility. It took 32 years of difficult parts, second leads, villains and juveniles. The Oscar changed the quality of the roles I was being offered.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm offered a role, I look at what I think I can do with it. I look to see if I can project myself into it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a role isn't different, it's not worth doing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know anything about acting, I didn't know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school. I wanted to play ball; I'm going after a basketball scholarship and be a doctor. I got injured and my marks began to drop.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was at Woodstock. In the mud.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's the way it was. That made me feel that I should have chosen some other profession, so I could have gotten my just deserts.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have a bout with death, things that touch your mortality, when that happens, all that bling-bling gets thrown away because all you've got is you and God.
- Diet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm cancer-free. And I'm on antioxidants and acupuncture and a different diet. And I have a different outlook on life. I don't have resentment any more. It's wonderful.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's best friend, Georgie Terra, was an Italian guy. The children and the cousins and nieces and nephews were children of the Mafia. Those were the children he grew up with. If you want to go to a safe neighborhood, go to where the Mafia is.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Avatar' was gorgeous. There are good stories in there, but when used in other movies they're similar to those violent video games. Characters using deadly weapons. The children follow these movies.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was invited to play with the New York Knicks. I was never drafted, but I was invited to the rookie camp.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think more important than law is the hearts of people.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to do whatever it takes to get our children together and pay attention to them, because that's our future. What's in the hearts and minds of our children is what's in our future.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working on the ABC movie 'Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige,'' which we filmed in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, was a special pleasure, particularly because I'd played baseball in high school.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most fascinating projects I worked on right after 'Officer' was 'Sadat,' a role for which Anwar Sadat's widow, Jehan, personally chose me. Although this TV miniseries won me nominations for the Golden Globe and an Emmy, strangely, it was boycotted in the Middle East.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I believe that the reason I have been able to do such exemplary work on the screen is because this is the only place I can be free, neither censured nor judged.
- Nov 07, 2020
Some Marine units actually use 'An Officer and a Gentleman' in their training programs.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we look at each other, we're the same family. You don't have to see black or Latino - we're one family. That's America.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
One family, one nation, indivisible. That mentality is essential for our salvation.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only time I was really free was when the director said 'Action' in front of a camera or on the stage, and that's when I flew.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The two lines from 'Roots' that stick out to me are, 'You no more in Africa. You in America now,' and what I said after Kunta escaped: 'What is it like to be free, Kunta? It must be something.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
George Clooney and Brad Pitt, with those 'Oceans' films they do, they get to work together, make a whole lot of money, and make a major film statement. Imagine if once a year, myself, Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, James Earl Jones, we did some relevant film together to make a statement.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my best friends while shooting 'Roots' was Vic Morrow, the guy that whips Kunta.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's really nothing like a live audience right there. When you're in a bad show, you can hear the creaks in the chairs.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We started the family Bible after slavery was abolished. My great-grandmother remembered the Bible being started, which meant that she was a slave as a young girl. When she died, the Bible was at least 105 years old, so she must have been nearly 115 years old. Her daughter, my grandmother, died at 97, and her husband at 98.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You never know when what you do in the arts means something to people, and you never really know if you've been received well.
- Beautiful Words
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are beautiful words in the Bible and in our pledges and the Declaration of Independence.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe the gift of acting is a gift from God, my oath to God, and I want to make sure on a daily basis that it is honed and deeply spiritual... I want to believe that the audience believes that my acting comes from this special place.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think God asks us to promise to replenish the planet and to pay 100% attention to our young so that they will develop character and a good conscience.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never made a million dollars from any of my 78 movies. People thought I had this fortune, which I never had.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am so grateful that the public has given me this gift. They look at me as a person - not as a race or a color. The word for it is freedom - to be accepted as me.
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- Nov 07, 2020