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" Even before I was working off-Broadway, there were lots of different TV shows that I would actually say 'no' to, and my agents would be like, 'Are you crazy?' but they stuck with me because they know the kind of things that excite me. "

Corey Hawkins

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" I remember 'The Cosby Show,' but that was something completely different. Comedy. There was a lightness to it and a sort of unrealistic perfection. "

" In television, to be a hero and look like I look, that really stuck with me. "

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" My mother's a police officer, so there was only so much trouble I could get myself into. But my father grew up on the other side. "

" I have the most utmost respect for the men and women overseas, and I only played a soldier on television. Again, I can only imagine the sacrifices that they make every single day. "

" Heading out to L.A., doing this acting thing. You can't rest on your laurels out there. You finish a film, you don't know how it's going to do. You're talking about that next job, usually. "

" So you want to take the risk, and you want to step out there; you do it because that's what we have to do as actors. And sometimes in TV, it becomes big, and it becomes about the entertainment, but also, we have to focus in on the work. "

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" On '24,' you don't have time to emote and deal with stuff, because stuff just keeps happening. Every other minute, there's something crazy that's happening that's threatening this country. "

" Nothing's out of the realm. I think '24' has always keyed into that. "

" We are a diverse people, man. "

" In 2001, terrorism was fought in a completely different way. "

" I prefer to do in-person interviews, but it's all a part of the job, and I love talking about these movies so much. "

" What everyone loved about '24' is still there - the clock, the tick, the lean-in factor, the pacing. "

" It's always weird when it comes to awards and awards season because how can you say that this performance is better than this performance? Art is so subjective. "

" The only pressure, as an actor, is to step into Eric Carter's shoes and make him as fully and as complex and as flawed and as human as I could. "

" We work so hard on our craft, and once we get out of Duke Ellington, there are not going to be people looking for technique. I worry about that a lot. "

" The only thing that I know how to do as an actor, as a trained actor, is you can't villainize the character you're playing. Whether it's a fictional character or a real character. Because then you operate from that sort of negative point of view, and you can't humanize him. "

" Sometimes you just need to raise your voice. And sometimes a little anger is necessary, to be honest. "

" The challenge is making sure that every single moment is honest, no matter what. It's doing Eric Carter justice. Not trying to fill Jack Bauer's shoes. Not trying to step into Kiefer's legacy. "

" You know how trends go with television. Next year, the networks might not be open to taking risks. "

" If the challenge wasn't there, there's no reason to say 'yes' to the role. "

" Growing up, we never got to see a hero who didn't have superpowers who looked like us, that you could kind of look to and say, 'I could be that guy one day. I could be a patriot. I could be a soldier. I could work in the government and be a hero.' "