I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.

'Dancing With the Stars' is so Middle America, and people take it so seriously.

I’ve tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.

I decided sitcoms weren’t for me.

I never wanted to lose out on an acting job and wonder if I hadn’t been trained enough.

My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call ‘Little House on the Prairie’ tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from.

I wanted to be a leading man – the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.

Don’t let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.

When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad’s limp – my dad was my hero – but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.

I have a talent for missing the best and greatest parties.