I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
I didn't want to have braces when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure my dad didn't want to pay for them.
I love acting. I love what I do. I am absolutely filled every day with gratitude that I get to do it.
The music industry is rolling in cash. . .
I'm reading a lot of scripts. It makes my career decisions in that sense much the same way I consume media.
I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.
There's also something happening in television similar to what happened in the '80s, when people stopped taking so many drugs and wanted to hear real instruments in music again. I think people want plot, story and characters. Those are more important than having a big star.
I used to tell Jackie (Robinson) sometimes when they were throwing at him, 'Jackie, they aren't throwing at you because you are black. They are throwing at you because they don't like you.
Man-hating is everywhere, but everywhere it is twisted and transformed, disguised, tranquilized, and qualified. It coexists, never peacefully, with the love, desire, respect, and need women also feel for men. Always man-hating is shadowed by its milder, more diplomatic and doubtful twin, ambivalence.
If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
We need a shroud. A shroud for the son of Hermes.