I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.

I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself, trust in your abilities and you're the author of your own destiny.

You don't want it to be a replica or an imitation. You want to create something fresh, original, very unique.

I just want to keep the diversity and the options open. In terms of what I'm looking for, I'd like to do a lead action role.

Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home. Akin is warrior or brave man. Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.

Personally, I love Toronto.

You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.

When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do.

The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.

As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience. I played a character on Oz and people still approach me in the streets today.

Also, I'd like to play an athlete again, while I'm still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole, because I play the trumpet and sing. I'd like to incorporate that into a character.

Even silence tends to scream in a strained relationship.

Making movies is controlled anarchy, chaos.

I would keep in mind to a young poet that you are entering into something that is very important, that has always been important in terms of human concerns.

I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.

Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.

There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers.

Good melody is never out of fashion

I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.

You can support the troops but not the president.