Courtney B. Vance

“Wes Anderson is a perfectionist, so you have to just be ready to try it this way, try it this way, try it that way, and then try it this way. And then, once you think you've got it all and it's done, then you're going to be called back in two or three months so you can try it that way and try it this way. You've got to give him all of it.”

“I was a huge O. J. Simpson fan.”

“Family is funny, and so it was not an unnatural thing for me, growing up, not to know anything about my dad or about the Vance side of our family.”

“Eventually, you know the rhythm of your character, of the set of the piece. It takes less energy for you to hit that point, and then everything resonates. But initially, it takes a tremendous amount of energy. You just hope it's gonna be okay and you don't forget your lines and those cameras.”

“I get up early, go to bed late, and sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. And I pray a lot.”

“Tom Cruise is one of the most wonderful, kind, and generous men that I've ever met.”

“Our parents didn't let us watch a lot of television growing up. We had Disney on Sunday nights, and at 8:30, they were like, 'Turn it off! Go to bed!'”

“It was a natural for me to end up in the theater because I'd done a lot of reading about it.”

“My parents were all about education. My mother was a librarian - she retired after 30 years - and she made sure that we were always at museums, that we went to plays.”

“I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.”