I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series.

Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.

Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high.

My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.

The Force is within you. Force yourself.

I was one of the few people who thought Star Wars was going to work, and I hadn't even seen any special effects.

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.