Sometimes when you grieve, you grieve at a time where you don't really expect it. You might hear a song or you might smell something or see something that might trigger something, and all of a sudden you get hit with this rush of emotion.

That's one of the fun parts of becoming an actor: You can become whoever you want to be.

I like the old '90s music.

That's probably why my face was looking so crazy when I was crying [in "Hardball"] because it was some real.

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

I think that humanity is at an all-time low in how we value life, especially among young Black people. We just don't really value each other's lives .

You start at a young age, going on auditions, and you think you did a good job and expect to get that role, and you don't, and it's a letdown, a disappointment. So you tell yourself to just do the work and disconnect, because you have no control over the outcome.