For me, Christmas is about family, loving, forgiveness, compassion, understanding and comradery..

Art-school girls are very nice..

People fight for their regulars. It gets dirty sometimes..

Most of my movies are indies. The best scripts I can find are independent films. But I love big-budget movies, I love craft services!.

I did this movie with Spike Lee called Sucker Free City, and that would have to be my favorite role by far. It was just so much fun to work with Spik….

It's hard sometimes when you're in a regular high school, you just feel like the odd kid out. The great thing about going to an art school [is] it's ….

I'm happy to be an Avenger!.

The advise my dad gave me: "To know is to study." Get some training under your belt, so that nobody what somebody asks you to do, you know how to han….

The choices that we make through our lives, the people who intersect us on our path kind of change what our fated destiny is. So some of us are lucky….

When I was in high school, I read the whole thing about Don King and he had this quote that said, "Set yourself on fire and the world will pay to wat….

I'm not Martin Luther King. I can't be Martin Luther King. The only thing I can do is present what I feel the essence of Martin Luther King is..

There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors..

If you want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a good movie. If you don't want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a 'Twilight' movie..

I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken..

I'm a firm believer in people who love what they do..

You never see girls running after engineers..

I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening to people and how awful their lives are..

As an actor, the only thing we can do is play the truth at that moment. Because at any point in time if you play the future, or you play that you kno….

One thing that I've been very vocal about roles I take, and my representation has been very smart about, is that I didn't go to Juilliard to be "Thug….

I would love to be a superhero..

I haven't been able to grasp the concept of putting your life on the line for whatever reason people go into the military for. Some people just want ….