I'm pretty much a couch potato.

It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult.

There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer.

A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.

I spend my weekends sleeping and watching DVDs, and eating at restaurants within a 2-block radius of my apartment.

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

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.