34 Quotes by Courtney B. Vance

I remember I was up for the role of Jim in 'Huck Finn,' and because I went to Harvard and Yale, they didn't think I would be able to play a slave. I said, 'Oh, please.' I had to go in there and prove to them that I wasn't too intelligent to play a slave.

We were raised in the black community not to trust the police, and I believe, in the white community, they were raised to actually be a policeman.

I would love to take a crack at 'Long Day's Journey Into Night.'

I think if you just hang in there long enough and keep doing what you know is your sweet spot, I think the world eventually catches up to you.

I was a huge O. J. Simpson fan.

It was a natural for me to end up in the theater because I'd done a lot of reading about it.

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.