I come out of repertory theatre so I've been working under pressure my whole career.

I don't see myself as extremely handsome. I just figure I can charm you into liking me.

You can put a cat in an oven, but that don't make it a biscuit.

I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.

I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!'

We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.

My sign is Leo. A Leo has to walk with pride. When he takes a step, he has to put his foot down. You walk into a room and you want people to know your presence, without you doing anything.

You give Frost a message from me. You tell him it's open season on all suckheads.

I don't like perpetuating the stereotype of black males being drug dealers, and criminals.

I have a whole other side that has yet to be seen on screen.

The first time I jumped from a plane, I screamed like a woman. I was two miles up and you could hear me clear as day. Now I love it.

Unexpected gifts were better accepted when they were presented by total strangers, I had learnt.

Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.

There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.

As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.

Let me introduce my friend, Cat.’ The redhead, and for some reason, she looked familiar. ‘Her husband Bones’ – here Vlad smiled coolly at the short-haired brunet – ‘is not my friend.

You need to change yourself. The moment that you change yourself it is a gigantic step. And this is what I do. The book is much more important than the writer.

A really religious person has no theology. Yes, he has the experience, he has the truth, he has that luminosity, but he has no theology.

Yes I have smoked crack cocaine. But no - do I? am I an addict? - No. Yes, I've made mistakes. All I can do now is apologize and move on.

If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.

This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.