Actors tend to not know how their performances are going to actually be used. Even though the script says one thing, in the edit, it can be something else.

We're all human beings. Experience is experience, let's just be honest. Let's not try and dissect suffering into a race, or whatever you want to call it. We're all human beings, one way or another. All races have gone through times that are challenging; that's part of being a human.

I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

The one album I can't live without is called 'Cumbolo' by a band called Culture. Every song on their album is deep, but there's one in particular called 'This Train.' I have a tattoo of the lyrics on my left arm.

As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with...

I'll always be attached to telly in one way or another, whether it's a character or producer or director, I just love the medium.

There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.