As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience. I played a character on Oz and people still approach me in the streets today.

I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself, trust in your abilities and you're the author of your own destiny.

I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.

You don't want it to be a replica or an imitation. You want to create something fresh, original, very unique.

I just want to keep the diversity and the options open. In terms of what I'm looking for, I'd like to do a lead action role.

Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home. Akin is warrior or brave man. Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.

Personally, I love Toronto.

You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.

When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do.

The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.

Also, I'd like to play an athlete again, while I'm still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole, because I play the trumpet and sing. I'd like to incorporate that into a character.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confidence of their help.

With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.

Authority and example lead the world.

simon: that's disgusting! me: what's disgusting? simon: you know. you put your thing in the place where he, um, defecates.

Fenworth!' Yes?' You bore me with your prattle.' Oh, regrettable that. Why don't you seek the company of someone who doesn't prattle? Seems like a good solution to your problem.

Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don't know you're having one until you're right in the middle of it.

I won the Olympic gold medal in Rome, Italy. Olympic champion. The Russian standing right here, and the Pole right here.

It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.

Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.

I've never associated myself with other singers, certainly not female singers.