If you do God's work, all your needs will be provided.
I'm doing work in the community.
For me, 'Cool Runnings' was amazing because I always wanted to bobsled and go to the Olympics.
At the end of the day, if you are an actor, you definitely know that you're just work-for-hire.
I personally don't prefer acting and directing in something because I don't have the same objectivity.
The things I'm most excited about are projects I'm producing. But if a director I'd love to work with calls, I'm always game.
I'm happy with getting older and getting more focused. I thought I was focused when I was young, but you're only as focused as experience will allow you to be.
As your life expands your focus expands or contracts.
It took me until my 40s to realize the five essential areas that are important to at least have a real dating chance. Obviously, beyond the physical compatibility, which is where we all start in junior high school, I think that intellectual compatibility and spiritual compatibility, emotional intelligence, and financial compatibility are important.
When you engage with people as an artist you know exactly what they feel and what they're thinking.
When I'm doing a role the one thing I ask is 'Is this believable? am I being truthful?'
I'm a dad; I started a program for young men when my first child was born.
At the end of the day, people like drama - if everything is great, no one wants to hear about that.
In my experience on 'New York Undercover,' where I played a dad, I was 26 years old, and I didn't have kids then. And at that time, it would blow me away that people said they became a better parent because of watching my role on that TV show.
The issues that black men face oftentimes are the issues that everyone faces. Do you have the ability to be present? Are you working on yourself? Do you understand what it means to be a man? To be responsible, loving, vulnerable?
Playing Martin Luther King Jr. was an honor for me on so many levels. It was the most I've ever prepared for a role.
It's very rare that Black actors get an opportunity to do period pieces and to have a breadth of characters to choose from in their work.
I know that my fans, who have followed me for years, want to know what I'm doing.
When you do a pilot, you can't always tell what you have.
