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If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.

Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.

I want to keep acting. I'll be acting probably until I get a lot older.

If I had to give up either acting or dancing, I'd choose to keep dancing.

In terms of my actual acting, I don't really like to to copy anyone or replicate anything that I've seen.

Acting is my interest, but it opens up avenues.

I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.

When you're watching a movie and find yourself getting emotional, it's because you're bringing something personal to the images. It's the same thing with acting. You're bringing the essence of your core emotional being to that moment.

You have to learn to draw the same emotion you had when you wrote a song every time you perform it. Acting is the same way: You have to find those emotions and bring them to the surface, and then put them back when you're done.

Acting was my first love before music.

When you take on an acting or dancing role, you have to trust your director, and in some ways there is freedom in relinquishing control.

Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?

Technically, my first acting job was in one of my videos for a song called 'Retrospect For Life,' which Lauryn Hill directed and featured an actress by the name of N'bushe Wright, who played my girlfriend who was about to be pregnant. I remember being so nervous about it, but now I feel like I can conquer the world with it.

I don't know how I could have an acting career with this.

I grew up in West Philly, and I took an acting class at Temple University there. Then, after school, I moved to San Francisco.

I don't know if I'm going to do any more acting. It's a great job, you know? Make a movie? Why not?

My background with acting is deeply interwoven with my family life and my childhood. It's a 'Peter Pan'-like narrative, something that was golden but could also be a bit dubious.

It doesn't have to happen for anybody at all, this acting game, so you have to count your blessings. If I am lucky that the right things have come along at the right time, I'm just going to ride that wave.

It's weird to be recognised anywhere. The cost of living your dream, acting, is being recognised.

I had done a lot of indie movies before I realized that acting could be a way for me to get my family out of poverty. It was at that point that I decided to take acting seriously.

Acting-wise, I think I did well in 'Kinatay.' It wasn't talkie, and the acting was intense.