Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think all actors give up at some time and think they're never going to make it.

When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart.

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

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 love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist.

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 went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting.