Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

I don't know if one's more typecasting than the other, or what I am more like. But I know that the high school I went to was a private school. It was prep school. It was a boarding school. So we didn't have a shop class. We didn't have Saturday detention. We went to school on Saturday. We did have Sunday study, which you very rarely get, because then you have 13 straight days of school. Who wants that?

It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life.

I went to acting school with Mario Van Peebles. For a little while, he was at the same school. So he asked me if I wanted to do [ New Jack City]. He said, "There's not really a role. We'll figure something out. But would you like to?" And I was like, "Sure." 'Cause he said it was Chris Rock and Ice T's first movie.

It's great to work with people that you like, any job, no matter what you do.

[John] Hughes was open to that [rehearsal]. This can only happen if the director and/or the writer are open to that.

I play a garbage man who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. Terrible.