It's easier to believe in yourself after someone else has believed in you first.

Dance is the fastest, most direct route to the truth.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

I've got to learn to keep my mouth shut.

People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.

Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.

Do you have the discipline to be a free spirit?