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The more you do a stunt, the more you increase the risk of something happening.

I don't give Hollywood the power to limit me. Only God can limit me.

Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive.

The more versatile you make yourself, the more work you get. Training makes you more versatile and ultimately gets you more work. Julliard taught me that.

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Using the Africanist model, each generation should take the family name to a higher place. My father's folks were sharecroppers in South Carolina. He went to Harlem. They were still poor, but they moved up. If my parents didn't do this and offer me this background, I wouldn't be here.

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Rottweilers are victims of a stereotype. They're not that bad.

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Are you intimidated by me? Because if you're intimidated by me, that's something you'll have to deal with.

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For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.

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I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

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I saw how, when my brother smoked reefer, it made my mother cry. He was 16 at the time. And I saw that she broke down and cried. I never wanted to hurt my mother, so I kept away from drugs.

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