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" I got in trouble for saying I would move my family to Europe, but I said it. "

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" I was at UGA playing with Champ Bailey and Hines Ward - both guys who will probably touch the Hall of Fame one day. "

" When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses. "

" I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well. "

" People are fond of that 'crabs in a barrel' mentality, and I'm like, 'No, there needs to be more so we can create more barrels; there doesn't need to be one barrel.' "

" I think what's most important is family. "

" Deciding to not attach ourselves to something that doesn't appropriately represent us is extremely powerful. "

" 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. "

" I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up. "

" I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama. "

" I'm not shutting myself off from kids; I'm remaining open to kids and the energy that they bring. "

" It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you. "

" I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister. "

" I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself first of all being challenged by those that love me to write more. "

" 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. "

" As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences. "

" You know how you can be romantic? You can be romantic by going to a beautiful setting, sitting on a park bench, and getting good ole-fashioned golden arches, a.k.a. McDonald's. That's probably the best I can do romantically. "

" The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be. "

" What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view. "

" There were uncles in my life that definitely knew the street life. "

" I was going from Furman to the University of Georgia. I transferred to play football. "

" You don't go to church and tell the choir how to sing if you're a visitor. "

" I think the universe just brings people around others they find to be interesting. "

" Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career. "

" I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet. "

" That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy because it's the fact that someone is giving it to someone else. "

" I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years. "

" So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me. "

" That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete. "

" I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you're smart, you know that a trial lawyer isn't that different from an actor. He was a poet as well. "

" I use Aveeno cleansers and moisturizers. "