You learn your lines as well as you can and you go in there and go with whatever is thrown at you. Sometimes you don't know whether or not they're going to break the scene up, so you don't have… — Courtney B. Vance Copy Share Image
You need great actors in this one, because there are moments where there's no way to get around it, you just need to come up with it. They have no time; they can't help you with coaches: "We've got to… — Courtney B. Vance Copy Share Image
Tom Cruise is one of the most wonderful, kind, and generous men that I've ever met. — Courtney B. Vance Copy Share Image
Family is funny, and so it was not an unnatural thing for me, growing up, not to know anything about my dad or about… — Courtney B. Vance Copy Share Image
We have to give people dreams; we have to give people hope. In terms of government, in terms of society, that's our goal. You… — Courtney B. Vance Copy Share Image
We were raised in the black community not to trust the police, and I believe, in the white community, they were raised to actually… — Courtney B. Vance Copy Share Image
From the outside, there's a lot of glitz. They see you on the red carpet, but they don't see what it takes to get… — Courtney B. Vance Copy Share Image
Sometimes there are four or five cameras in front of your face moving all over the place, and you have to try to see… — Courtney B. Vance Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company. — Courtney B. Vance Copy Share Image
Eventually, you know the rhythm of your character, of the set of the piece. It takes less energy for you to hit that point,… — Courtney B. Vance Copy Share Image
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,… — Courtney B. Vance Copy Share Image
