“I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their s...” — Martin Luther King Quote

“I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

“I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.”

“Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.”

“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”

“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.”

“A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.”

“I do enter into character on set, but I can step out of it.”

“It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.”

“I like playing a variety of characters. I feel like I've been able to play different kinds of characters - I've done a lot of period pieces - but I've never had to play the same type of character too much.”

“Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going to play. So there's no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared.”

“Writing a song is about inhabiting a specific frame of mind and conjuring a mood, a character, an entire vision.”