I was raised in Mississippi, so heat and humidity is my bread and butter. It keeps me going. I can't stand cold weather.

If you're going to play a brain surgeon, you just have to learn how to say the words. You don't have to go and learn how to cut open somebody's scalp. I think acting is acting. Being is something else.

The first thing that always pops into my head regarding our president, is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him... They just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white - very white; American, Kansas, middle of America. There is no argument about who he is, or what he is. America's first black president hasn't arisen yet. He's not America's first black president. He's America's first mixed-race president.

That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants.

If you want to see a miracle, be the miracle

There is no such thing as homophobia. It is not a fear. It is you being an asshole.

Is listening important? I can't think of a single walk of life where it wouldn't be.