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.

I've never considered myself a comedian. I'm a comedic actor.

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.

Those that have loved longest love best.

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.

Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.

I run into a lot of kids who are either on R&R, or on their way to Iraq. They all know who I am and are fans, but they're kids! I am yet to meet one that's over 23. Yet they're full-time warriors.