My thing is to gain the respect as an actor, as a professional, and the friendship and everything else will happen from there.

CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY

I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise.

Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love.

Revenge is not a positive state of mind or energy to indulge your self in.

No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.

I haven't had a problem with being typecast, but if I was only getting one type of role, I wouldn't mind. What I'm worried about is not working.

You know, my childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word turbulent.

Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices.

I do happen to love Honey Nut Cheerios. I don't know if I want to walk down to the store in my pajamas for them. But I do love them.

You know, Tupac is very near and dear to my heart. He started my career as an actor.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

I like the feeling of being dominated

We give 10 percent of our income to our church every year. Do you think that is the kind of person who is trying to hide things, or do things?

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

I have met with many of the great parents who lost their children to sanctuary cities and open borders. So many people, so many, many people. So sad.

It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage.

But what sets Europe apart is we insist on a social model that consists of solidarity, equal opportunity and a certain amount of redistribution.

We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love.

We need to assume that aspirations of people in villages are nothing less than the aspirations of people in the cities. They need a change in their lifestyle.

And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.