Shaft Quotes

(on Mia Farrow) Trying to describe Mia is like trying to describe dust in a shaft of sunlight. There are all those particles. Her conversation is clotted.

But after having done American Psycho and Shaft, I found it a breath of fresh air to play somebody who`s completely human in terms of his emotions.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn`t as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

(referring to Shaft (1971)) "Number one, it put me on the map . . . To this day that film still works . . . I was blessed."

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant; And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that`s broken!

That eagle`s fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high.