For me and my storytelling and the way that I embrace stories in the way that I embrace characters, I desperately needed to know that everything was okay.

The value of a story isn't that it just has a narcotic effect. It's that it awakens something in you that makes you want to think, that makes you talk to other people, that stirs something that makes you examine the story that eventually turns into self-examination.

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.

I'm motivated by fear. Fear of fear. I hate being scared to do something. And I think what developed in my early days was the attitude that I started attacking things that I was scared of.

The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'

The first step is you have to say that you can.

So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.