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

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.

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

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.

Trust your instinct in areas you have some background because your instinct is informed and not blind. - L. R. W. Lee

I have a friend - I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don't want a million texts. It's exhausting.

The work of a generation is beginning here, with your hearings, and you have the full measure of my gratitude and support.

The human brain is the highest bloom of the whole organic metamorphosis of the earth.

It was just one day and it's been just one year. But maybe one day is enough. Maybe one hour is enough. Maybe time has nothing at all to do with it". Willem

You get a canoe later and I'll paddle you.

I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.

Golf's Holy Grail - a genius course.

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.