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

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" 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. "

" I'm not going to lie to you: I'd prefer not to go to the gym and not to run. "

" Heading out to L.A., doing this acting thing. You can't rest on your laurels out there. You finish a film, you don't know how it's going to do. You're talking about that next job, usually. "

" 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. "

" I have family that are vets of the military. My grandfather served as well. "

" I want longevity in this career. "

" Yes, I do feel a deep responsibility every time, every character, everything that I do. "

" Sometimes you just need to raise your voice. And sometimes a little anger is necessary, to be honest. "

" Even before I was working off-Broadway, there were lots of different TV shows that I would actually say 'no' to, and my agents would be like, 'Are you crazy?' but they stuck with me because they know the kind of things that excite me. "

" To be honest, sometimes you have to know your rights. "

" We are a diverse people, man. "

" I feel immensely blessed - not just that I'm working, but that I'm working on projects that I really care about and like. I've always been that way. "

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

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

" It's also crazy how Shakespeare has that cadence, and it's about locking into the jazz of the language, just like locking into the rhythm in N.W.A's lyrics. "

" It can't be all serious at all times. "

" My mother's a police officer, so there was only so much trouble I could get myself into. But my father grew up on the other side. "

" The only thing that I know how to do as an actor, as a trained actor, is you can't villainize the character you're playing. Whether it's a fictional character or a real character. Because then you operate from that sort of negative point of view, and you can't humanize him. "

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

" 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 grew up in D.C. "

" When it comes to the awards and everything, and the press, the publicity, this is all icing on the cake to me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm the guy coming from Juilliard. "

" Nothing's out of the realm. I think '24' has always keyed into that. "

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

" 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. "