We all use texting as a crutch because it's so easy and it doesn't really stop our day for the most part but I think to assure a woman you want to go out, to see that you're serious, you take the extra effort to pick up the phone and make a phone call.

Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.

Acting for me sometimes is taking whatever personal experiences I have and try to apply that [to a role].

In many ways for black actors there's been two leading guys: It's Will Smith vs. Denzel [Washington].

Chicago PD has a rule that if you work in Chicago you have to live in Chicago. Some areas don't have that rule.So oftentimes you get people from different environments that get thrown into environments with people that they never spent time with before in they life. On a daily basis or in their personal life. The only access they had to these type of people was through the media.

You see somebody like me, as young as I was at the time, driving around the inner city of Newark, and to them [police] it doesn't make sense. I've been illegally searched [and had] my car illegally searched. [I've] been handcuffed for no reason. You get in enough of those situations.

As I grow and get older, mature a bit, and work on my big boy voice a little bit, I definitely want to direct.