I've Been Spared To A Large Extent

I Want To Aspire To Something Like What Denzel Washington Does, Which Is Try To Find Scripts Written For White Actors - Or Jodie Foster, Who Reads Scripts For Male Actors.

I Think It's Necessary When You're Dealing With A Dark Show That Has Explosion And Violence To Have Defined Moments Of Lightness And Humor, Even Romance. It's Important, And It Deepens The Character, Of Course.

I'm Very Pleased With Being A Part Of The Bean Pole Family. It's A Relationship That Makes Sense To Me. I'm Very Pleased To Have My Name Associated With Bean Pole Jeans.

There'll Be Moments When I'm Out In The Prison Yard, Chatting With The Cast And The Crew, Getting Ready To Shoot A Scene. And Then I'll Remember If I Were Actually An Inmate, I'd Only Be Out There An Hour. The Other 23 Hours Of The Day, I'd Be In My Cell. It's Kind Of A Downer.

The Beautiful Thing About Having Grown Up In Brooklyn Is, Because Of The Rich Cultural And Racial Diversity There, No One Seemed To Give Too Much Thought To Where I Fit On The Racial Spectrum. But There Were Times When I Would Run Up Against Someone Who Was Interested In Figuring Out What Race Was. That Would Come As A Surprise, And In Some Cases, Like A Slap In The Face.