Danny Glover (Actor)

"Art is supposed to challenge conventional thinking. I like to illuminate the human experience with my work - to create dialogue, to stop people from thinking that our experiences are limited to 125th and Lenox." - Glover to the Daily News, Nov. 2, 1997

"Danny believes that he's an important part of the fabric of what's possible for black filmmakers." - Bill Duke to Premiere, February 1992

"He has a kind of laid-back comic dryness to him that really works." - Mel Gibson to Premiere, February 1992

"I don't live an extravagant life. But you still face choices. With movies, you sometimes reach a point when it becomes difficult to say no. You don't want to make a film just because you think it will be a commercial success, but it's not always that simple. Maybe you have a daughter in college or a brother who needs an operation. It's easy to be noble about turning down a $10 million film if you have a whole lineup of $10 million films in front of you. But most of the time you don't." - Glover to the Daily News, June 13, 2000

"I'm a child of the civil rights movement. My grandfather was born before the turn of the century, with memories of slavery in his mind, and my mother and father, they made me feel part of this continuum. They made me feel what was important. They brought me to this place where I am, right now." - Glover to the San Francisco Examiner, Oct. 18, 1998

"Racial progress in Hollywood is mostly cosmetic. Hollywood has always been a conservative place, because it doesn't consider itself art. It's about making money and getting people to buy something." - Danny Glover in Parade, Feb. 11, 1996

Glover was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1990.

He is a recipient of the Phoenix Award from the Black American Cinema Society.

In November 1999, Glover filed a racial-bias complaint with the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission claiming he had been by-passed by several drivers while attempting to hail a cab in Harlem.