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With my background, I came out of the theater.
I entered Hofstra University as a psychology major.
If you have the skill, then you can move as you age.
Most of my career I purposely spent doing good guys.
To work for Shonda Rhimes is heaven. It's been amazing.
I always feel like I'm running an hour and a half late.
I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.
Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.
I think many villains have the burden of not being very human.
I didn't play basketball because I'd learned how to ice skate.
I don't think you can play a villain with a negative point of view.
It's important to me to play men who use their brains, not just brawn.
If there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.
I don't live on the West Coast, so when I come out to work, I rent a house.
When was the last time you saw a straight black love story without any guns?
When it comes to certain portions of our history, we've just forgotten it all.
Race prejudice has nothing to do with color. It has to do with being the stranger.
I've never liked much of reality television, mostly because it involves humiliation.
I would love to play the villain, but again, it sort of what happens in this industry.
I think people believe that I give an aura of someone who has both feet on the ground.
I think people believe that I give ant aura of someone who has both feet on the ground.
I would love to play the villain, but again, it's sort of what happens in this industry.
I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.
I think that, unfortunately, it appears that Donald Trump is trampling all over the Constitution.
By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.
James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.
Acting-wise, it's always exciting to come back for a third season of any TV show that you're working on.
There's nothing better than an educated actor - not only educated in his craft but educated in the world.
I think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture.
I started off at Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island, and started doing theater in Manhattan in 1969.
When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.
I think theater is the strongest place to find what's missing in entertainment. Unfortunately, it pays the least.
You don't have the opportunity to win an Emmy unless you're given the opportunity to play certain kinds of roles.
I know who Dick Gregory is; I knew what his accomplishments are. I certainly knew him as a comedian and an activist.
If we're still talking about the same thing 40 or 50 years later, then that means we're not doing anything about it.
My father was in the military; he was a captain. His service was to quote-unquote integrate the Armed Forces overseas.
'Turn Me Loose' was Off-Broadway, and now we are making a concerted effort to figure out how to get it to on Broadway.
In the case of Papa Pope, certainly he's making his daughter's world and the world of the republic a much better place.
Everyone does what they believe they need to do in order to survive in this business, 'survive' being the operative word.
I think the greatest lesson that power has to teach us is, once you've had it, once you are a part of it, you're never free.
I think it might be interesting to give an Emmy to an outstanding background performance in either a comedy or drama series.
My whole career has been a landmark. So I don't think about the pressure too much. I just go out and do, because I believe in it.
I think every villain basically thinks that he or she is doing something to make his world, or the world in general, a better place.
I don't know of any actor in any television show that I have ever seen who's given monologue after monologue in a television series.
If someone wants to give me the lead in anyone of those films, and deal with those other complications, terrific, Im ready for them.
My tendency is to be quiet and to stay focused and in character. Not the entire time, but certainly to stay focused while I'm on set.
You make up your mind what part you want to read for and why. It's kept me focused - on what's important, what I want, and what I don't.
If you've been on top of the food chain in the Armed Forces, that's who you are. You're used to dealing with your life in a particular way.
Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far.
If you live a good life, that seems to be what really matters. If there is something afterwards, terrific. If not, you haven't lost anything.