I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.

You just let people do what they do and look at them and give them enough rope until they do what you thought they were going to do... which is screw you over.

Everybody likes an extraordinary person or likes to think that they would be great with a superpower in an ordinary world.

I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'

I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs.

I'm a one-take kind of guy, except I don't do it in one take.

It was actually a lot more helpful to have Calvin Hart, a cop, as my template. He was also my technical advisor on Shaft. This time, I kinda got to go to Jersey City with him, and hang around, and watch him interact with other cops, people in the projects, and see what it means to be him. People call him 'Big Daddy' and he's this larger-than-life hero to a lot of people.