Actor

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

In America, it is difficult to be your own man.

I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.

My father was the quintessential husband and dad.

History passes the final judgment.

I get offered work these days.

So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.

My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me.

In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man.

I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species.

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.