Playing somebody who's real, you can bring all kind of nuances and things to him that you get from source material and things like that, but the more….

If the acting don't work out, I'll have a future in construction..

There was this rapper from New Orleans, Mystikal, who when I hear his music, I hear myself. Whenever I wanna get hyped, I put on Mystikal..

Not too many people can say they love what they do and they really like the people they work with..

I'm a firm believe that a man looks his best in a suit and I feel like in the late 40's people just dressed up to do everything..

Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well..

I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry..

I like movies. Movies have afforded me a modicum of luxuries. The thing about the movies is, if you're bad in a movie, you're bad forever..

Everybody knows when you've got a role in a Spike Lee movie, you're gonna blow up. But I happen to be the only person who's had the lead in the two S….

I'm definitely not a muscle builder or a guy that's interested in being a muscle builder. It feels good to get back down to a normal size. Not like a….

At Juilliard, I couldn't afford to have fun. I went to school and stayed home..

I love what I do. If I have the opportunity to do what I do with people I admire, it's 10 times better..

So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're prepared it's going to continue to come your way..

I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have..

It's because the idea of what's cool is different. When you talk to a girl who goes to regular school, what's cool is whether or not you've been to j….

Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have t….

I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling y….

I'm not Josh Brolin or Ryan Gosling. They're more noir than I..