Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

Black history is American history.

Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen.

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.