I’m not too into fast food, but you know if I was, it would be chicken.
My rule is simply “love what you do”. That certainly has brought me to the place I where am at right now. It really has been with the work.
For me, what I try to heal is the major thing that I think all of us go through, where we came from. From our family of origin.
I don’t think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as we grow to our maturity.
For me, I’ve lived a life as an athlete.
I feel that our stories are cross culturally irrelevant, and I’m a member if a larger community of people who have no boundaries in terms of color or in terms of how I look at other people and their stories.
I love to read, and I like the fact that there’s some silence in my life.
I never like to refer back to anything I’ve done when I’m working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation.
I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions.
I feel that if you can transcend the color of your skin, with your talent, why carry that as a badge or a label?
I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I’m truly persuasive.
I want a body of work; I want a good story after a good story.
I’m a big fan of period pieces, and I’m a big fan of the old-time westerns.
When you have great acting partners, you hope that your reaction to them is propels you deeper into your own character.
I’m impatient sometimes.
I’m interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.
Who told you to step on my sneakers? Who told you to walk on my side of the block? Who told you to be in my neighborhood?
When I listen to my scene partners and listen to their breathing allows me to be connected to them in scenes. I am not trying to multi task, not trying to talk on the phone, but in my character.
For me, listening to my breath in between the lines, allows me to be in deep connection to my spirit.
I practice yoga every day. The practice calms my spirit, and allows me to be present.
There is a dream that the world could be at peace, but that requires that all the folks with arms disarm, or take over all the arms and allow us to trust them.