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1. I think, by nature you know, I’m very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who’s also extremely feminine.
2. I know that Donald Trump is a smart man.
3. You can’t look at the dollar and say, ‘I’m not what I dreamed of being unless I do this type of movie and it’s a blockbuster that gives me this amount of dollars.’ That’s not good.
4. I really had a problem with being ‘the man.’ I’m past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being №3 on the call sheet or №2.
5. It’s really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.
6. I would say, as loving as I am… I am definitely an extremely temperamental man who has a very large temper.
7. We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women — black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
8. I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.
9. Spike Lee gave me the greatest reaction to the fact that I was this athlete-meets-artist, because I think he saw that I was different. I learned that oftentimes, Spike directs in a sense that he might just stare at you and look at you in a telepathic way of communicating.
10. I’m safe where I’m at just being the guy where people go, ‘That’s a really good actor. What’s his name again?’ I liked being at that place.
11. If your character is just out there acting a fool, viewers are gonna say, ‘Why am I watching this?’ But if he’s whispering, ‘I don’t really want to die,’ there’s a level of vulnerability cemented in these bad characters.
12. Women are so necessary for us in terms of support.
13. I’ve approached every character I’ve ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
14. As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
15. If I could remake any Eighties project, it would be less an action flick than a character-driven drama with a rich story to tell.
16. I use Aveeno cleansers and moisturizers.
17. Know that the tattoos are all significant. They’re all extremely insignificant. I can’t break each one down, but it’s 20 years. The first one was 21 years of age from a football teammate.
18. I did ‘Fences’ off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it’s amazing that Denzel Washington and Viola Davis brought it to Broadway.
19. It’s an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They’re the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.
20. To make your own family is just the most empowering thing ever. It’s the greatest thing you can ever pull off.