At Juilliard, I couldn't afford to have fun. I went to school and stayed home.
At Juilliard, I couldn't afford to have fun. I went to school and stayed home.
Money always changes the game, when you let a dollar come between you and your friends, your cohorts...
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Money always changes the game, when you let a dollar come between you and your friends, your cohorts.
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So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're p...
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So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're prepared it's going to continue to come your way.
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Do you want to be an actor, or do you want to be a celebrity? I made that decision when I went to Ju...
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Do you want to be an actor, or do you want to be a celebrity? I made that decision when I went to Juilliard. I wanted to be an actor. So, if I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I'm going to do that.
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If you want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a good movie. If you don't want to buy a good movie, you...
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If you want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a good movie. If you don't want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a 'Twilight' movie.
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I'm not Josh Brolin or Ryan Gosling. They're more noir than I.
I'm not Josh Brolin or Ryan Gosling. They're more noir than I.
The great thing about it is, in Hollywood, certain people are very good at keeping their lives and w...
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The great thing about it is, in Hollywood, certain people are very good at keeping their lives and who they are very private. I've never met anybody as down to earth and cool in Hollywood than Matt Damon.
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"I've never seen anything like it before. It's like the old days of James Cagney, when women would j...
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"I've never seen anything like it before. It's like the old days of James Cagney, when women would just swoon." (on the effect that Matthew McConaughey, his co-star in We Are Marshall (2006), has on women)
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Everybody knows when you've got a role in a Spike Lee movie, you're gonna blow up. But I happen to b...
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Everybody knows when you've got a role in a Spike Lee movie, you're gonna blow up. But I happen to be the only person who's had the lead in the two Spike Lee movies nobody saw.
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I'm a firm believer in people who love what they do.
I'm a firm believer in people who love what they do.
There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black...
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There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors.
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The choices that we make through our lives, the people who intersect us on our path kind of change w...
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The choices that we make through our lives, the people who intersect us on our path kind of change what our fated destiny is. So some of us are lucky enough for the choices that we make to keep us on our path.
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[on making "Triple 9"] We had some local actors and some people from the streets. Some of them were ...
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[on making "Triple 9"] We had some local actors and some people from the streets. Some of them were from rival gangs, but nobody wanted to mess up the opportunity of being in a movie, so nothing happened. But we came close. It helped put us in the mind of being a cop and thinking about how easy things can explode in your face.
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If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection grou...
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If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.
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I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up wi...
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I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.
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"You never see girls running after engineers."(on why he chose acting over a career as an engineer)
"You never see girls running after engineers."(on why he chose acting over a career as an engineer)
I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through ...
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I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.
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I enjoy where I am and I don't have a problem with being Steve Buscemi, Stanley Tucci, Don Cheadle, ...
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I enjoy where I am and I don't have a problem with being Steve Buscemi, Stanley Tucci, Don Cheadle, or Jeffrey Wright. They're not the lead of every movie they're in, but every time you see them they're really good.
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Art-school girls are very nice.
Art-school girls are very nice.
In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a ...
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In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.
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The stage is my first love.
The stage is my first love.
I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening ...
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I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening to people and how awful their lives are.
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I like movies. Movies have afforded me a modicum of luxuries. The thing about the movies is, if you'...
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I like movies. Movies have afforded me a modicum of luxuries. The thing about the movies is, if you're bad in a movie, you're bad forever.
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If the acting don't work out, I'll have a future in construction.
If the acting don't work out, I'll have a future in construction.
Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say li...
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Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.
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If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place.
If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place.
Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.
Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.
Most of my movies are indies. The best scripts I can find are independent films. But I love big-budg...
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Most of my movies are indies. The best scripts I can find are independent films. But I love big-budget movies, I love craft services!
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I did this movie with Spike Lee called Sucker Free City (2004), and that would have to be my favouri...
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I did this movie with Spike Lee called Sucker Free City (2004), and that would have to be my favourite role by far. It was just so much fun to work with Spike and shoot in San Francisco.
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With all the movies I've done, I still get recognized from my episode of 'Law & Order' more than any...
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With all the movies I've done, I still get recognized from my episode of 'Law & Order' more than anything else. It never fails.
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Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.
Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.
I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.
I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.
"I was flabbergasted. Everybody knows when you've got a role in a Spike Lee movie, you're gonna blow...
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"I was flabbergasted. Everybody knows when you've got a role in a Spike Lee movie, you're gonna blow up. But I happen to be the only person who's had the lead in the two Spike Lee movies nobody saw. It was a humbling experience, but Spike taught me more about how to fall on my face in this business than anybody else." (on the attention he didn't garner after being in Sucker Free City (2004) and She Hate Me (2004))
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I would love to be a superhero.
I would love to be a superhero.
There was this rapper from New Orleans, Mystikal, who when I hear his music, I hear myself. Whenever...
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There was this rapper from New Orleans, Mystikal, who when I hear his music, I hear myself. Whenever I wanna get hyped, I put on Mystikal.
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