Ernie Hudson

It's a hard call, but I've no desire to live my children's lives. I think my job as a father is to protect them, to allow them a safe place to grow up and to teach them what I've learned.

Every once in a while as an actor, you do something that the kids really like.

Once I committed to acting, this has been it.

The truths that are found in the Bible are universal truths. And it shapes who you are and guides you throughout your life.

What celebrities hope is that people identify not so much that they're particularly special or different, but they identify with them. We represent life in general, the guy who does whatever.

But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?

I think it's important to find the joy in your work and the things that sort of renew that.

You go down to Skid Row and you see literally hundreds of people and not just men, but women and children as well. It's really a tragedy that our society has come to that.