It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.
If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.
I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.
As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.
You either get better, or you don't progress.
A very odd thing happened to my career when I got The Wire. My career was pretty much a steady climb; I didn't really flatline much. When I did The Wire, that's when I thought all the doors would open, but that's when things flatlined. I had a really hard time just getting seen for film, which was the next step.
It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
Experience has taught me a technique for dealing with such people [. . . ] I counter the devotees of the Great Pyramid by adoration of the Sphinx; and the devotee of nuts by pointing out that hazelnuts and walnuts are as deleterious as other foods and only Brazil nuts should be tolerated. But when I was younger I had not yet acquired this technique, with the result that my contacts with cranks were sometimes alarming.
The discipline of programming is most like sorcery. Both use precise language to instruct inanimate objects to do our bidding. Small mistakes in programs or spells can lead to completely unforseen behavior: e. g. , see the story, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice". Neither study is easy: ". . . her [Galinda's] early appetite for sorcery had waned once she'd heard what a grind it was to learn spells and, worse, to understand them. " from the book "Wicked" by G. Maguire.
I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred circumstances and my profession as an artist. It is a life that contains nothing that resembles happiness, and moreover does not even desire happiness.
By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.