If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don't understand that.

With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.

I hear about people getting shot all the time. But most of the guys you hear about getting shot pulled through.

You become a writer on a television show, and you see yourself doing bigger and better things, you don't wait till they tell you, "Here's the way to do bigger and better things," you start writing. You start writing that material that you might be doing off to the side. Nobody's going to be paying you for that, but it could turn into something big.

I can't really attribute my success onscreen to any formula and suggest you "do this or that" to make it as an actor.

With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast.

Nobody I know got killed in South Central LA. Today was a good day.