I love coming in for quick pops. You come in. You score. You leave. You're on the golf course. It's great. You don't carry any story.

Sometimes one of my ways of choosing movies that I want to do is if it's the kind of movie I would have gone to see when I was a kid, and this is a movie I actually did go see, as a kid. And I think it will be exciting for audiences to see now.

I was Gator in Jungle Fever, and Chris Rock played Pookie, and those showed two very different dynamics of what crackheads were. Mine was more about the family relationships. So when people sat there and got that, they can sit there and say, "Oh, man, that's my friend." Or "That's my brother." Or cousin or somebody. They empathize, or they had something that they could latch onto, in that particular movie, of my story, and go with it.

Certain comedians work with certain actors; like Adam Sandler worked with Jack Nicholson.

I’ve consequently played a lot of different cops from a lot of different kind of law enforcement agencies.

I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.

The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.