Most of my career I purposely spent doing good guys.

I think the responsibility that any actor has is to bring some truth to the work.

I've played good guys for most of my career, and when I came out to California, I thought, 'I really would like to find some wonderfully intelligent bad guy to play.'

My whole career has been a landmark. So I don't think about the pressure too much. I just go out and do, because I believe in it.

Dick Gregory will be greatly missed. Humbly, and in his stead, 'Turn Me Loose' carries on to be his voice and his inspiration for all who wish to laugh at the absurdity of racism and be enlightened by his spirit of justice.

Dick Gregory used every syllable, every metaphor, every joke, every march, every incarceration, every hour of his life, to embarrass this country into providing a more perfect, perfect union.

I think it might be interesting to give an Emmy to an outstanding background performance in either a comedy or drama series.

I don't watch a lot of television, which sounds strange for someone who works in TV.

My father was in the military; he was a captain. His service was to quote-unquote integrate the Armed Forces overseas.

We live in a world where racism hasn't changed at all. It's that old thing of, you know, the more things change, the more things remain the same.

In the case of Papa Pope, certainly he's making his daughter's world and the world of the republic a much better place.

'Breaking Bad' - when I started watching that show, I thought it was terrific. I love the way it was shot. I love the writing. I love the arc of Bryan Cranston's character. I just thought that was just really, really a wonderful, wonderful show.

I think every villain basically thinks that he or she is doing something to make his world, or the world in general, a better place.

I don't think you can play a villain with a negative point of view.

I love doing theater. Despite the fact that out of theater, film, and TV, theater is the hardest thing to do. It's the least paid, and we all have these bills that we have to pay.

'Paycheck,' I thought, was a really, really good idea. I never got an opportunity, unfortunately, to read the novel, but I loved the idea of how to deal with intellectual properties. I just don't know that we necessarily got to the heart of that particular idea. I think it became more of a chase movie than anything else.

I make it a habit of never trying to judge what an audience might think, only because all points of view are too close, because we're doing it every day, I think that the actor's point of view is sometimes too close to what the material actually is.

I've never liked much of reality television, mostly because it involves humiliation.

I think that, unfortunately, it appears that Donald Trump is trampling all over the Constitution.

It's funny: We have so many shows and so many channels and so many things to occupy people as entertainment, especially with a show like 'Scandal,' which is clearly a hit, with a lot of heat around it - but every once in a while, people will say, 'What are you doing?' and I'll say 'Scandal,' and they'll have no idea what I'm talking about.

I think, very often, we're addicted to procedurals, those good guy/bad guy shows, and the 'problem' with procedurals is they all follow the same formula: The bad guy does his thing, the good guy goes after him, and in most cases, the good guy figures out who did it and catches him.

You want to be challenged, so you feel like you want to get up and wrestle with the character or enjoy the character - especially with a TV show, because you know you could be doing it for a long time, so you want to make sure it's something you really enjoy.

When I first came into New York City, what I did was, I didn't have very much money, and I couldn't afford pictures or a resume, so what I used to do is I would tear off the back of a matchbook, and I'd write my name and telephone number on the back of the matchbook.

Everyone does what they believe they need to do in order to survive in this business, 'survive' being the operative word.