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" I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then you have to act. My pulpit is acting. "

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" To make your own family is just the most empowering thing ever. It's the greatest thing you can ever pull off. "

" I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time. "

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

" I've definitely had my moments in relationships where I've been able to say yes, I have been heartbroken, my heart has been broken. "

" 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 always like, 'Well, let's not rest on a critical acclaim or on a incredible review or on a great reception.' "

" 'Dark Blue' was a really solid show, and it stopped at season two. "

" I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I always had an interest in telling stories. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music. "

" 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. "

" I don't think there's a fan out there who hasn't had a family member or known someone personally who's been in the midst of divorce - perhaps not necessarily gotten the divorce or executed it, or perhaps they have - and still, in many cases, they found themselves back with the person that they were married to. "

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

" I know that Donald Trump is a smart man. "

" Real to Reel is a rare opportunity for new filmmakers to screen their work for industry insiders. "

" I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day. "

" I was at a ballpark as much as I was in school. I was on a basketball court or football field as much as I was in school, so I definitely was receiving mentorship when it came to coaches, my father, my grandfather, and my uncles. "

" Craft is everything. "

" I did 'Fences' off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it's amazing that Denzel Washington and Viola Davis brought it to Broadway. "

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

" 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've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?' "