You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.

Just give me a good role that allows me to hone my craft and I am a pretty happy camper.

In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.

For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting.

There's something so familial and intimate between a boxer and his trainer.

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.

If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?