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" Coming from a football background, when everybody is doing their job and operating on such a high level, it only motivates you to do the same. "

" Football is the ultimate team sport. You're dependent on 10 other people on the field to have success on a particular play to get to the common goal, which is the win. On a set, we need everybody doing their job and pulling their weight. "

" Hate has a language, so we have to find a language to combat that. "

" Hate is a problem. "

" I had a father who was active, present. There are people out there that never knew their fathers, didn't have their father's support. If I were to complain, that would be real sad. How dare I? "

" I had family in Carolina who were very hood and talked differently in this sort of Southern cadence. "

" I hope people will see how harmful words are and how irresponsible we can be when saying the wrong things at the wrong time to certain people. "

" I'm from the old school; hard work pays off. "

" I'm still trying to find the actor I want to be, but I know what kind of the talent I want to be around. "

" It's a thankless job for police officers, period, but specifically for men and women of color protecting and serving. "

" I've gotten rejected hundreds of times. "

" I've met Caucasians who are racist, but I've also heard black people say racist things. "

" I wanna work with filmmakers that love, are enthusiastic about their process - about the process - about their process and the environment of inclusion and collaboration. I want the people to be able to trust me, and I wanna be able to trust them. "

" I want to be around people that are just as enthusiastic about the process and storytelling as I am. "

" I went to a historically black college. "

" I went to bar mitzvahs as a kid. I had a lot of classmates who are Jewish. "

" I went to private school, but I've got family from North Carolina. "

" I would tell people my dad was all the characters he's played in movies, because once you say he's a lawyer or something, they move on. "

" My father taught me how to hunt. "

" My mother taught me how to love. "

" Of course I've felt racism. "

" Oh, talking about private school, man, I had cornrows, and when I picked 'em out, certain people that didn't look like me always wanted to touch 'em. One time, I just said, 'Yo, hell no.' "

" There are a lot of Washingtons that have played football. I could just blend in more and carve out my own name quietly. "

" There's some men and women out there that are doing their job the right way. They're protecting and serving complete strangers in their communities the right way. And it's a thankless job. Obviously, there's a lot of information out on cops not doing their jobs correctly, but the ones that are should be celebrated. "

" This is a privilege, what we get to do. To be able to tell stories. It's a luxury. So I have a business-like approach to it, the same way I had with football. "

" Whenever you're feeling moments of discomfort, that means true change is happening for you. "

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