I always try to get as personal as I can with the characters that I play, which is a reason why I don't play a lot of characters.

Education, introspection, self-love and excellence are the only ways to overcome the wrath of ignorance

For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing. How the comedy ever even started in my life was that moments got uncomfortable and I felt uncertain of what the outcome was going to be, so I found a way to deflect what I was feeling, or what everyone else was feeling, by creating laughter.

I don't want every fan; I'm interested in fans interested in quality work, authentic archetype depictions.

I always try to get as personal as I can with the characters that I play, which is a reason why I don't play a lot of characters.

Coming from a background as unique as mine, the first challenge is being able to identify chaos as chaos. For the first half of my life, I interpreted chaos as normal. Today, I am aware that I have triggers: a default way of thinking that is often not relative to the immediate moment. Therefore, in the midst of chaos, I have learned to relinquish all my premature cognitive commitments and become present.

It will be difficult if people can't get past their prejudices; I don't mean Black and White; I mean people automatically assume because a film has a predominantly Black cast, that it is a particular quality of film.