Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.

I get to be in movies where it's mostly dialogue, and I want to be in something, that for me, feels like kickboxing.

I had a lot of fun with Val Kilmer. He's like a big kid.

I've always had to bind up and wrestle fear, because acting is really about faith. And faith and fear can't really stay in the same room. So, in order for you to be more than a conqueror, you're going to have to defeat fear with faith.

I was discovered on the Sony lot through an audition by Denzel Washington.

Spartan is about this elite unit of the armed forces named the Delta Force. I play a protege of Val Kilmer's character, and he kind of gives me a hard time.

He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action.