I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.

For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just stepped up.

I do have characters who are more well known than I am, which suits me fine.

The reason why things work is because of love.

Having been born and raised in Washington, D.C., you kind of absorb politics when you grow up. And it continues to be a focus of mine, probably more than what is healthy for me.

When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.