It's terrible feeling like an eligible bachelor but no women seeming to agree with you.
My dad was in the hood, he was a minister, and he would always put churches in the ghetto.
I always want to know what's wrong with you, why you ain't smiling. That's just my character; I just love people and want to see people having a good time.
It's important, when you see darkness, to understand that there's light ahead of that, and I'm the living testimony of that, you dig?
It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful
I come from a hut, from a hut I went to the projects, from the projects I went to a mansion so you out there you have ABSOLUTLY NO EXCUSE!
The reason why we're warriors is that we rise to the occasion; anyone that's felt like the system put them down, and then they rose to the occasion, they're a warrior. It's not about whether you come from the hood or you come from the suburbs, you know what I mean? It's about reality and life.
I won't even think about acting in a role where I didn't do a back story for a character.
I mean, I don't think I would call Claus to do an album of big band tunes. You know, just like arrangers write for the artist they have in mind; you have to keep in mind if you're going to work with Claus Ogerman. You invite him to do what he does.
A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
You tell yourself that you're not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, "Well, I won't get that job. But maybe they'll have another job sometime, and they'll remember that I was good. "