Mario van peebles

No matter what color you are, if you mentor some little boy or girl, you make a huge difference in their lives because they then model behavior that leads to success versus modeling behavior that...

When young people see movies like 'Gandhi 'or 'JFK,' there is an element of romanticization of these powerful people, and young people often feel a huge distance between their own lives and the lives...

I went from being 'Mario who?' to 'Mario baby!

I had unusual parents. We'd been to Europe. We'd been in the theater. We were sort of like the Addams Family.

My dad always said there's four phases in an actor/director's life. There's 'Mario Who?' There's 'Get me Mario!' 'Get me a young Mario,' and 'Mario Who?'

We think birth is a miracle and death is a tragedy, but really they're flip sides of the same coin - anything born is gonna die.

When you make a film that is based in reality, reality will come up all around it.

If I or any other black can deliver at the box office, I'll get a lot of work. Too many young actors, regardless of their color, try to play an attitude on camera and fail to remember their job is to...

There is definitely places in America where, if you're born into that environment, your chances of getting out are really, really limited.

I'm not in business to make money.