I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

I'm not a comedian. I don't make things funny if they're not funny. I don't invent funny stuff.

I was a B student in math, simply because my teachers liked me, as an actor.

I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was Glory.

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.

I grew up in the South but I started dancing in my twenties when I got out of the Air Force, and studying dance, you're surrounded by gay guys all the time. You get to know them and you have to shift gears!