There's drama in everything. That's why I love movies. Like Welcome to the Dollhouse, I'm a 350-pound black man, and I could understand what it was like to be a little white girl.

A lot of my colleagues are content to be character actors who are always in the background. I'm not that guy. I'm the guy who wants the limelight. Gimme the ball and I'll run it through a brick wall for you. I'll be your biggest soldier.

Timidity has no place in a major action movie. You have to know how to take your moments. Sometimes walking out the door is just walking out the door. But when it's your moment, you have to go for it.

A lot of times people are too ego caught up where they made the decision and "We're going to stick with it" and then I had to suffer.

Never stop being YOU. I am out to be the best ME I can be. Do what you LOVE and you will be badass.

My mantra is "I don't want to let anybody down." Maybe that's not the right attitude, because you can't please everybody. But I'm giving it everything I've got.

I consider myself a feminist. My whole life has been about standing up for women, for anybody really, who's been abused.