The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.
We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.
And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
In our house, my dad had a chair. It was a Barcalounger, big and comfortable. If we missed him or wanted comfort when he wasn't home, we'd just climb into the chair and let it envelop us.
When a sports team is doing well in a city that's going through tough times like New Orleans, like Detroit, it bolsters this real sentiment of 'we can get through this.' And when you have that sentiment, it becomes more than feelings: It's transported into action.
The world, post-Katrina, was a hard time for my city. The hardest time. For people who didn't live through it, no words can fully express the pain, the rage, the grief, and the futility we New Orleanians felt. For the people who did, words seemed like a feeble protest against a relentless night without end.
David Simon is a brilliant writer, brilliant at being able to take what is ordinary and make it extraordinary.
My mother was a teacher for 40 years. She was part of the United Teachers of New Orleans.
I have so much love for art.
I trained at Juilliard so that I could do all kinds of genres, so that's what I'm trained to do.
I consider myself a journeyman actor, and I pride myself and look forward to keeping my career choices as diverse as possible because it challenges me as an actor.
I'm a multitasker, and I kind of like it that way.
Coming out of school, sometimes people can be theater snobs. I only wanted to do theater, highbrow stuff. But what I learned very quickly is there can be good material in every genre.
It strengthens the acting muscles to tap into other parts of yourself. When you can accomplish something that's unexpected, for you as well as the audience, that's really important. It's also very important if you want people considering you for other projects to broaden their view of you.
One of the great things my grandparents and grandparents taught me was, there are those who don't have your best interests at heart.
My father was so against me becoming an actor.
The key, I always thought, to my career would be diversity - a diversity of not only the type of work that you do but the mediums.
I tell people all the time: get some training and become a student of your craft.
Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.'
