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" 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. "

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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. "

" Know that the tattoos are all significant. They're all extremely insignificant. I can't break each one down, but it's 20 years. The first one was 21 years of age from a football teammate. "

" 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. "

" I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house. "

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

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

" Women are amazing lovers. "

" I was a 200-pound defensive back on Saturday, but after the season, I was performing 'Lysistrata' or 'Fences.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge. "

" 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 know that Donald Trump is a smart man. "

" 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. "

" On 'Being Mary Jane,' I learned to embrace sex symbol. "

" 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. "

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

" When it's all said and done, I am secure enough with my manhood to say to the world, 'I am a male actor, and its okay for me to play a gay man.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I always had an interest in telling stories. "

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

" Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it. "

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