Around 1969, my family had just bought a house in a lower-middle-class white neighborhood two blocks away from school. Then, all of a sudden, all the white people left the neighborhood and the school. — Courtney B. Vance Copy Share Image
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… — 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
