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The arts saved my life.
Cajun culture is dying.
I came out the womb dancing.
I got picked on a lot as a kid.
All my characters have playlists.
As we say in the hood, I'm a stoop kid.
I know nothing of what it is to be a gangster.
I know plenty of adults who act like teenagers.
Music is always a part of my characters' make-up.
I'm more liable to hurt myself than someone else.
Music's been part of my entire life. It's in my DNA.
The Wire' is very realistic and based on real events.
'The Wire' is very realistic and based on real events.
I'm good with all my roles, I've never had a bad role.
You have to put your character to rest after x amount of years.
Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love.
Revenge is not a positive state of mind or energy to indulge your self in.
My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.
You know, my childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word turbulent.
Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices.
You know, my childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word 'turbulent.'
Addiction is a health issue, not a social issue, not a crime, not a legal issue.
You know, Tupac is very near and dear to my heart. He started my career as an actor.
God has blessed me. I've been given a lot. I'm at peace with myself. It's time to give back.
I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise.
Doing something that warrants the attention of the President of the United States is super-cool.
Doing something that warrants the attention of the President of the United States is super cool.
I have a very healthy appetite for good writing and good characters. Having weak writing is my biggest fear.
CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY
I come to work on time. I focus on my job. I bust my scenes out and everything else kind of happens from there.
If you've ever felt oppressed on any level, there's something from 'The Wire' that you can take and identify with.
I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.
My thing is to gain the respect as an actor, as a professional, and the friendship and everything else will happen from there.
I do happen to love Honey Nut Cheerios. I don't know if I want to walk down to the store in my pajamas for them. But I do love them.
The most successful people reach the top not because they are free of limitations, but because they act in spite of their limitations
My only goal is to stay focused on my craft and make sure my life is as sharp as it can be to attack any character that is given to me.
I am a dark-skinned, nappy-headed, scar-faced dude from the streets of Brooklyn. I can't hide from being who I am. It's all over my face.
I'm looking for diversity, all my characters may or may not be on the wrong side of the tracks. It doesn't mean that they're all the same.
For me, my past characters been hard, the way they died, being murdered, the sadness that goes around, the death. It's a very hard thing to do.
I haven't had a problem with being typecast, but if I was only getting one type of role, I wouldn't mind. What I'm worried about is not working.
People say they love the characters I've chosen in my career. But I didn't choose anything. I just happened to be working and these were offered to me.
My goal is to end mass incarceration and change the laws to stop locking up low-level, nonviolent drug charges. Stop charging drug addicts as criminals.
Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love. I am proud to join the ACLU in the fight to make mass incarceration a thing of the past.
Ending a television character that you've been, especially someone like Omar Little, it hurts. For me, it's a huge thing. You feel like a part of you is gone.
People misconstrue when I say I was a dancer. I was not classically trained. I was a street dancer, and I got to do what I did in the nightclubs of New York City.
I don't consider myself a person of fashion because it's too sophisticated. My thing is I look at style like swagger. I like things that pull me, that I gravitate to.
I'm totally comfortable today with the success that Omar and 'The Wire' have brought me - living with that character, being recognized and remembered for that character.
No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.
My main goal, starting out as a young actor, was to carry the reins that Pac left off and to reach the depths as an actor that I know he would have reached had he still been here with us.
I am the epitome of the underdog. By societies standards I should have been dead a long time ago, and I was nobody's gangster, I wasn't a thug, I wasn't selling drugs on the corner - I was scared of that.