I'm a homebody. I'd rather be in the kitchen cooking than hanging out in a bar.

People forget that actors are actors, who are looking to put on the clothes and the character, and then shed it just as easily.

The older I get, the easier it is to just be present in the moment, and understand what a man is going through.

I think we need to feel, to come together, to look at our differences as a benefit to who we are as people on the same planet.

I was never one to stand on a soap box and say, "This is how you need to live your life!" It was never about that.

I tell people, "It's the hardest thing to explain, but it's the easiest thing to understand." And all anybody really needs to know is, the struggles of life, the joy of life, the excitement and the heartbreak of life is something we can all connect to. And I like to hope that the inclusivity of the show [This Is Us] is something that audiences will relate to.

Every job built my career in some way or made me grow as a person or I got to meet someone great. I had one line on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, but I met Will Smith and he took 20 minutes out of his day to talk to the kid with one line. To this day, I think that guy is amazing because of that.