53 Quotes by Derek Luke

Hollywood is a place where if you abide by the rules and laws, you can get depressed. That’s why faith and spirituality is a higher law.

Hip-hop was my first audience – I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.

I had a lot of fun with Val Kilmer. He’s like a big kid.

Antwone’s story was a story of hope and that’s what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think all actors give up at some time and think they’re never going to make it.

I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I’ve loved expression – and that’s when I started thinking about acting.

I don’t think people come to television for spectacle. And I don’t really have a lot of fun writing spectacle for television, I’ll do that in features.

I was working at the store on the Sony studios in Culver City. And I was literally holding a shirt when they came in and told me I’d got the part! It just shows dreams do come true.

Denzel’s quality, I think, is his faith. You have all the action in your head and you have to believe in it and just do it. That’s what he does and that’s what he taught me to do.