What was funny, going to the gym, you see all these guys who are just massive. There's no way a person can naturally get that way. In the gym, you meet these guys and you talk to them, and everybody's really willing and open to explain to you what cycle they're on and to help you get on it.

At Juilliard, I couldn't afford to have fun. I went to school and stayed home.

If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.

The advise my dad gave me: "To know is to study." Get some training under your belt, so that nobody what somebody asks you to do, you know how to handle it accordingly. I learned so much while working, because I developed a solid work ethic in school. Whereas, a lot of my friends had no work ethic; and because of that, they're sitting at home today.

Money always changes the game, when you let a dollar come between you and your friends, your cohorts.

Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.

Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.