I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.

Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.

Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.