Hollywood is a place where if you abide by the rules and laws, you can get depressed. That's why faith and spirituality is a higher law.

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

Denzel's quality, I think, is his faith. You have all the action in your head and you have to believe in it and just do it. That's what he does and that's what he taught me to do.

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.

Denzel Washington is a person I will always emulate. I emulate him because he focuses on real life. Because of that he has made me a better person.

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

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