I started acting when I was at Amherst my junior year, and my lacrosse career kind of started to flop sideways after that.
I played football and lacrosse in high school. They wanted me to play football at Amherst, which I did not do because my schedule was full enough as it was. But over the course of my student days, I played pretty much every sport out there.
I find that the work I do as an actor that's most challenging commands an athleticism or, certainly, a physicality. And also a rigor, a physical rigor.
My first-ever job was when I was 14 or 15 in Washington, D.C., a job that I got through Marion Barry's summer-youth-employment program. It was working in the locker room of a public swimming pool, deep inside Anacostia in Southeast D.C., about five to 10 minutes from my house.
For me, an actor is a person who makes characters like a cobbler makes shoes.
Some of my earliest heroes were congresswomen like Shirley Chisholm and Barbara Jordan.
I was a political science major in college because that's where my head was.
There are too many guns.
We have more guns in our country than citizens. I think we could with maybe 100 million fewer guns. And I think we'd be OK.
