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.

If someone has already done a role I'm about to do, I won't watch the original until after I'm finished playing the role.

I've been in a couple with different races like Latino, white, Middle Eastern.

It was a good script [Something New]. We have not seen an interracial issue dealt with from a black woman and white man's perspective in this way. And, usually, it's a black man, white woman. I loved the fact that it wasn't about the couple being against the world or the couple against the family. I loved the fact that it was her dealing with her own prejudices that came up, her own guilt, her own shame and embarrassment about what her peers thought.

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.

Everybody is different. I can think of three black men I've dated and they couldn't be more different from each other.