Oh, the first dish I learned to make, I think I was about 10 years old, I made my dad spaghetti and broccoli for dinner when he got home from work, and it was, like, a surprise.
Sometimes our awards process can be very political in terms of just driving personal agendas, and I think we forget.
For directors and producers, you're not going to get competent performers on your set if they didn't start at a young age and understand professionalism.
I always connected renting a car with being an adult. If you think about it, it's the last frontier of your youth. You can join the military at 18, drink when you're 21, but you can't rent a car.
I was fortunate to work with some very powerful producers like Tom Miller and Bob Boyett.
I wasn't a kid trying to become famous. I wasn't a part of any Disney Channel wheelhouse. I was basically a black kid whose parents put him into the business so he could go to college.
I really chose a path after 'Grown Ups' of doing different things that I hadn't tried before, and just trying to take on those challenges.
As you get older, you start to understand you have to do what you need to do.
I'm very proud of what I was able to do during the '90s, when baggy pants were in and East/West rap was relevant and all these different things.
People don't necessarily identify me with doing adult things.
