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" I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine. "

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" I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king. "

" 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 always go into a character thinking, 'If it scares me, I can do it.' "

" Playing a cop goes a long way. I have a lot of friends who are working as actors, and as soon as I started playing military characters or cops, and not the actual criminal that we're chasing on this show, they all said, 'You actually can have a career now.' "

" Acting is the art of being and existing, and not being fake. "

" A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all. "

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

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

" Like anybody who grew up in the Eighties, I cringe at the thought of these movies being remade, because of the corniness and cheesiness of the originals. "

" I would honestly say I'm in the turtle's race. My journey is a marathon. "

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

" I didn't want to just do a show where my character stood out and other characters were flat or one-to-two-dimensional. I wanted everybody to have meat. "

" I use Aveeno cleansers and moisturizers. "

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

" For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one. "

" I realized, 'Oh, it's easier to get what I want if I embrace the sex symbol thing.' Microphones are more in my face, and I can say things about the kids that I mentor and open more access to more doors. "

" Sometimes my schedule doesn't allow time to go to the hotel after I get off the plane, so I bring my Freebird boots or my old school Adidas shell-toes to throw on after I land. "

" 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 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. "

" For a long time, I had been very secretive about a lot of the things I'd been through personally, and a lot of that is purposeful. My fan base, for the large part, is the younger generation. They're like, 'I want to know everything! I want to know it all!' "

" I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist. "

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

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

" I would say, as loving as I am... I am definitely an extremely temperamental man who has a very large temper. "

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

" 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. "

" I worked on the workshop of 'Topdog/Underdog' before it went to Broadway. My minor in school was theater, so I'm based in that, and then I moved to Los Angeles. "

" The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such plum options, so cable has done a good job of becoming a happy medium for artists deemed film actors. "

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