I don't know what would be antithetical to do on the other side, maybe a Tyler Perry movie or something. No, there are very few comedies that live in between that. Or you're doing some kid thing like a Jim Carrey movie with animated something that's like that. Yeah, I've wanted to do them. I like doing them. I did Talk to Me. That was pretty much a comedy.

I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change.

Many of my friends and family are scratching it out somewhere decidedly south of the ever widening gap between the haves and have nots, looking at losing their homes, colleges they can't afford and healthcare they can't avail themselves of.

I think that it's much more important to do than to say. And you learn that a lot from your kids, who are watching you, you know?

I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.