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" I knew I wanted to be an artist early on, but I decided to seriously pursue the profession when I auditioned for Juilliard. "

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" I'm tired of seeing people dying every day; I'm tired of seeing people go to jail for nothing. "

" We are a diverse people, man. "

" Sometimes, as actors, we feel like we want to hold on and control where a character goes. "

" If you feel your rights are being abused by the authorities, and you don't say something, sometimes the cops don't know how far to take it. They have a hard job, but at the same time, I think it's just about educating yourself. "

" I didn't grow up seeing faces of patriots, emotional and raw and gritty, who looked like me. "

" I'm having way too much fun on 'The Walking Dead.' "

" You read things, and they come to you, and if they speak to you at the moment and there's a voice in you that says, 'I don't know, that's risky,' or 'That's challenging,' then do it. Run at it and tackle it. And if it's bad, it's bad. You're gonna get over it. "

" 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. "

" I like to surprise myself. I like to surprise my fans, too. "

" I'm so OCD about prep work and learning lines and stuff. "

" 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. "

" I sort of have to have a positive outlook. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm the guy coming from Juilliard. "

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

" I like doing things that people wouldn't necessarily think I can do. "

" When somebody says, 'Do you want to play Dr. Dre in a movie?' I mean, how do you respond to that? My initial response was 'no' because I don't think I can do it ,and I don't want to be the one to mess it up! "

" I have members of my family who are in the military. I have friends who are in the military. Classmates who served in the military. "

" The thing with '24' is that because it moves so much, it's a challenge, and sometimes things get revealed about these characters as you go. "

" Eric Carter is a more raw, more emotional protagonist. He's a bit of an Everyman. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I got to pick the mind of a genius, and I realized why he was a genius. And I realized the man behind the veil or whatever you want to call it. Do you know what I mean? I got to see what makes Dr. Dre Dr. Dre, and I got to interpret that. It's hard to put it into words, so the only thing I know how to do is put it on the screen. "

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

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" I'll just put it this way: I've struggled enough as a working actor - and, most of the times, a not working actor - to know that anytime you are working is a blessing. "

" I think, in our darkest moments, you have to find the humor, and you have to find the lightness. "

" While I was filming 'Kong' - and I don't play a very capable Army Ranger in 'Kong'; I play a completely different character - but we had a lot of Army Rangers there, former Army Rangers, and Navy SEALs, who were working on the movie with us for the other characters, for the Army guys in the movie. "