Some of us just have to work harder to stay in the game.

There is a lot of struggle in being an actor; you need so much emotional strength, no matter what level of stardom you have, that it's nice to have something steady.

People may know me from films, but theater is my first love. I did about 35 plays before I even landed my first screen role. I'm very comfortable on stage, and theater is not something you can just wing.

I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything

To make a movie is very grueling at times. Long, long hours and cold weather.

People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off.

I really prefer the actual experience of being onstage and living the character from beginning to end with the energy of the audience. There's nothing that beats that feeling, and yet I really have trouble with the eight shows a week.