You don't have the time to "make the time" to do anything. You have to
do it now!
Even if I'm playing a bad guy, I work hard to make him multi-leveled
and interesting.
I'm no longer going to play thugs or debauched cops that I can't
possibly make complex characters. I'm bigger than that. I owe too much
to too many good people at the Goodman, Arena and Playwrights
Horizons.
[on being fired from Grey's Anatomy (2005)]: I apologized and showed my
remorse for what I said and for the pain I caused anyone. If a black
man can't get forgiveness in this country, when so many other people
like Robert Downey Jr. and the governor of California get second and
third chances... I think that says a lot about race and this country
where we stand.
[re his reaction to real-life serial killings behind Blue Caprice (2013) ] I was thoroughly embarrassed, because in my community, whenever you hear some really foul [crime], we're holding our breath to see whether the person is black or white. He's always either a crazy white man or a brother.
[re his infamous homophobic remark] For the last six years of my life, I've been fighting off bigots. It's, like, bigots want to embrace me, and I politely take their arms from around my neck. I don't share their views, never have.
I love Facebook. I could brush my teeth with Facebook.