Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

I put everything I had into it - all my feelings and everything I'd learned in 46 years of living, about family life and fathers and children. And my feelings about racial justice and inequality and opportunity.

It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all.

What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it's you, and I think that's what the audience is really interested in... you, how you're going to cope with the situation, the obstacles, the troubles that the writer put in front of you.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.