An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got the script on Friday, went to the audition on Monday and got the part on Tuesday. I was shooting the pilot a week later. I didn't have time to be nervous - it happened so quickly.

My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong.

My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up.

If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time.

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly.