Living by example - that's always a better teacher than trying to preach.

I think we should all be more concerned about the environment and the effects of global warming. It will be pointless to talk about all the issues that divide us when it's 300 degrees outside.

It is the least represented among us who will be the most affected first. We have a moral responsibility to protect them.

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.

If you look up and no one who's around you has been around you for the past 20 years, and they're all new people, I think that's a problem.

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

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.