I get up early, go to bed late, and sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t. And I pray a lot. Courtney B. Vance Read Quote
It goes back in the black community that the police are not your friends. That’s an old, old, deep understanding that we have, that it’s going to take a lot to undo that in our minds. Courtney B. Vance Read Quote
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. Courtney B. Vance Read Quote
When your tummy is full – even while shooting for long hours – you feel good. Courtney B. Vance Read Quote
When I was a senior in high school, I did an internship with a law firm. And it was very clear that I did not have what it took to do that kind of work. Courtney B. Vance Read Quote
When actors have the opportunity to play a larger-than-life icon – my wife did it with Tina Turner, and Jamie Foxx did it with Ray Charles – you have to make a decision how you go in. What do you start with? Where do you begin? Courtney B. Vance Read Quote
It was a natural for me to end up in the theater because I’d done a lot of reading about it. Courtney B. Vance Read Quote
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. Courtney B. Vance Read Quote
