My only goal is to stay focused on my craft and make sure my life is as sharp as it can be to attack any character that is given to me.

CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY

I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise.

Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love.

Revenge is not a positive state of mind or energy to indulge your self in.

No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.

I haven't had a problem with being typecast, but if I was only getting one type of role, I wouldn't mind. What I'm worried about is not working.

You know, my childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word turbulent.

Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices.

I do happen to love Honey Nut Cheerios. I don't know if I want to walk down to the store in my pajamas for them. But I do love them.

You know, Tupac is very near and dear to my heart. He started my career as an actor.

No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's weight lighter to the slave who must carry it.

A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.

The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.

When you adapt a book, you really have to cut it to the essence.

Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.

Man is a food-dependent creature. If you don't feed him, he will die. If you feed him improperly, part of him will die.

At the core, we're all spiritual beings.

It's one thing to have the attitude of enlightenment and another thing to act in an enlightened way, which is conduct or activity.

There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.

I never saw a department store Santa as a kid. My mother was afraid to take me.