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I loved Marlon Brando: my favorite actor.

Actually, I believe in everything, including astrology and tarot cards. All of it is just another way for people to try and tighten the link to the spirits in our universe. I believe it exists for all people.

Billy Dee Williams

Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.

Billy Dee Williams

Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

Billy Dee Williams

I was in the National Academy of Fine Arts and Design, on a scholarship. I was - still am - an artist. They were looking for an actor for 'Take a Giant Step,' and a producer liked my look and asked if I could act. I said, 'Yep!' Then I got into acting more or less just to make money for paints and canvases.

Billy Dee Williams

The world moves fast, but change isn't always a good thing when you got it right the first time around.

Billy Dee Williams

I'm always looking for good things to do.

Billy Dee Williams

My idea is to paint paintings so that when you walk into a room, I'm pulling you in, or that makes you suddenly stop and wonder: 'What is this? There is something groovy, something else going on here.' Also, I want to give you what is obvious and what is not obvious to the eye.

Billy Dee Williams

Sometimes a true original doesn't need to change a thing.

Billy Dee Williams

I loved Marlon Brando: my favorite actor.

Billy Dee Williams

I take very good care of myself, and I've still got a lot of things I need and want to do - and I am still cute. Retiring seems like such a remote thing to me. The whole idea of it.

Billy Dee Williams

I don't want to find myself ever locked into what people think I should think or do. In my art, and acting, I have a universal vision of things, an international vision. Bigger and broader and beyond. 'Bigger than life' is always on my mind.

Billy Dee Williams

Oh, I paint all the time.

Billy Dee Williams

I did something that no brown-skinned man in the movie industry ever did. I made a brown-skinned man look very romantic - a matinee idol. If you think about it, what I introduced is historical because it had never happened before, and it hasn't happened since - not on that level.

Billy Dee Williams

I think I've been very fortunate, considering the obstacles that I had to deal with, you know, just being - by virtue of being a brown, lovely, brown-skinned man. But on the other hand, I've been able to make a good living, and I've been able to take care of my family, which is most important to me.

Billy Dee Williams

The only thing that said 'Lando Calrissian' was ethnic was his looks.

Billy Dee Williams

I always admired my father because he was a man that never put on any airs, you know. And I always tried to be that kind of person.

Billy Dee Williams

I tell my son Corey that the greatest teacher is the teacher who says, 'Don't follow me; follow yourself. Because within you there is that kingdom, that life, that force.'

Billy Dee Williams

I want people to see my heart, what I feel - not as one of America's best black actors but as one of the best actors.

Billy Dee Williams

It's in our nature. We need to explore and find out what's going on outside of who we are.

Billy Dee Williams

I am an artist no matter what I do. I live for creativity. I think everyone should. It is the antithesis of being destructive.

Billy Dee Williams

I don't know why everybody thinks I'm smooth. I think I'm just a pretty silly person, really.

Billy Dee Williams

Jazz is very much a part of my life. I work with the Thelonious Monk Institute and do the artwork for their program every year.

Billy Dee Williams

I love the Mexican muralists - like Rivera, Orozco - and the music of Walter Benton. They gave you a sense that reality was much more than life.

Billy Dee Williams

I don't know. You know, when I'm not acting, I'm not an actor. I'm just a person. That's how I go through life. I'd rather not - you know, like a lot of actors, you know, they spend their whole 24 hours a day being an actor.

Billy Dee Williams

It was a time after 'Lady Sings the Blues' and 'Mahogany' and all those romantic movies: I became this romantic figure on the street in a very special way.

Billy Dee Williams

For myself, if I'm trying to obtain a certain longevity in my career, to establish myself as a certain kind of star, I don't want that black exploitation image.

Billy Dee Williams

Acting, I started when I was six and a half years-old, on Broadway with Kurt Weill.

Billy Dee Williams