I trip off it. You know what's interesting about the makeup is when you get up close and you know he's been working on your face, and you see where the makeup starts and it stops, and how seamless it is. You could look at it for hours.

Are you driving with your eyes open? Or are you, like, using "the force"?

If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.

When I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff and have a show like nobody ever had before.

I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

I started out as an impressionist and that’s all about observing, how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.

Theres this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didnt want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but thats part of it.