I'm a firm believer in people who love what they do.

If I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I'm going to do that.

If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place.

I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.

One thing that I've been very vocal about roles I take, and my representation has been very smart about, is that I didn't go to Juilliard to be "Thug #2" in movies. I like to be challenged. I'd say that about 40% of the roles I've done have been written for white men.

Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.

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.