Louis gossett

When I'm offered a role, I look at what I think I can do with it. I look to see if I can project myself into it.

I was invited to play with the New York Knicks. I was never drafted, but I was invited to the rookie camp.

My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.

The Lord may not come when you want Him, but he's always going to be there on time.

I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.

You have a bout with death, things that touch your mortality, when that happens, all that bling-bling gets thrown away because all you've got is you and God.

I didn't know anything about acting, I didn't know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school. I wanted to play ball; I'm going after a basketball scholarship and be...

I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's the way it was. That made me feel that I should have chosen some other profession, so I could have...

We need to do whatever it takes to get our children together and pay attention to them, because that's our future. What's in the hearts and minds of our children is what's in our future.

I'm cancer-free. And I'm on antioxidants and acupuncture and a different diet. And I have a different outlook on life. I don't have resentment any more. It's wonderful.