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" Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one. "

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

" 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 use Aveeno cleansers and moisturizers. "

" 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. "

" 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 think I'm an athlete who's trained as an actor, and when you smash it all together, you get whatever Omari is doing as a performer right now. "

" 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. "

" 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've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost. "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

" Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops. "

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

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

" If you remain open to great directors who look like you, who know what they're doing and are making impactful films that are destroying these 'blockbuster films,' you can do okay, and everybody can get more of a piece of the pie. But you've got to be open and brave. "

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

" For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it. "

" Spike Lee gave me the greatest reaction to the fact that I was this athlete-meets-artist, because I think he saw that I was different. I learned that oftentimes, Spike directs in a sense that he might just stare at you and look at you in a telepathic way of communicating. "

" My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it. "

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

" I really had a problem with being 'the man.' I'm past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2. "

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