If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.

Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.

I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

You either get better, or you don't progress.

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.

The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.

I'm an artist at heart.

Your courage is there right alongside of your fear.

I firmly believe that I have received the same child I was meant to receive, whether I gave birth or adopted. The same soul, the same entity, was meant to be mine, from the beginning of time.

Don't envy those who seems having everything, they don't really have everything. They have what they want and live the life they want but they don't have what they really need.

Synchronicity could be understood as an ordering system by means of which “similar” things coincide, without there being any apparent cause.

People have thoughts they’d sooner not have. It happens in life.

We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented.

I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air; Beyond my heart I need not reach When all is summer there.

We British play an important role in Europe, even if we have a traditional and historical ambivalence towards the continent.

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.