My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.

The last thing I want to be is a rich black superstar. I just want to act.

So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.