Acting is all about being truthful. I'm really bad at lying. I'm one of the worst liars I know.

Even if you become sympathetic for somebody who has done something terrible, I don't think that necessarily makes what they did look cool.

I think that when you're playing someone who does really questionable or even really terrible things in a movie, it's important to show where that person is coming from. They're doing it from a necessary impulse. There is a struggle that's going on within them as a human.

I loved getting classical training in terms of acting. I would've stayed in acting school for the rest of my life if I could have. It was this amazing period of my life where everything was so safe.

I love being directed. I always find it helpful to have someone else's brain in the mix and not just have to rely on myself.

Sometimes I'll get a bunch of my friends to pretend they're my fans and then I'll walk out on the street and I'll have them mob me just so I can prepare.

It's funny because I went to a predominantly white school, but for some reason they always picked the musicals that were supposed to be done by totally black casts.