I don't believe in breaks. Not yet. I'm too young. I'll find the next job to keep me busy between seasons.

Sometimes survival seems like submitting. And that's really hard on the spirit.

I don't believe in breaks. Not yet. I'm too young. I'll find the next job to keep me busy between seasons.

Regardless of the project, whenever you're working on something, the best you can hope for is to be around good people.

People talk about Jim Crow as if it's dead. Jim Crow isn't gone. It's adjusted. Look at the disproportionate sentences meted out to blacks caught up in the criminal justice system. There's a problem when people profit from putting and keeping African Americans in prison. We need to do a better job as a nation understanding the real values the country's built upon in terms of fairness, equality and equal opportunity.

With any good projects, I feel like the off-screen chemistry factors on-screen. It's great when you don't have to force it, but when it's not there you better focus on getting there, because as we live with these characters we spend more time with one another than we do our families at home.

A subject I'm particularly passionate about is the criminal justice system and almost all of the policies that impact people's lives are determined on a local level.