I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.

I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.

I think as you mature as an actor things open up to you in a lot of ways, especially if you do work on yourself.

Well I was about to be expelled from school, I had been arrested and a teacher said: "Why don't you try acting, instead of distracting the class? Why don't you use your comic talent for something more productive?" My maths teacher suggested I do comedy and I decided to have a go. I pursued it after that. I was about 17.

I would be jokesmithing. I had files with tons of disses that I would try to write as I was on the train going to school.

Don't confuse the beginning of my world with the breakup of yours.

I think Brad [Furman] crafted an amazing film [The Infiltrator]. It's so complex, it's incredibly thrilling, incredibly touching and it's what people have been trying to do for years in Hollywood, is to try to capture what it's like to be undercover, what is that duality of life? And I think that Brad really caught that.