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I'm neither sexy nor a star.
Everyone has their challenges.
I'm pretty much a couch potato.
I have my own personal wish list.
I am a workaholic, have always been.
You develop a lot of scars, being interracial.
You only cry for help if you believe there is help to cry for.
Unfortunately, I'm allergic to all animals and even some people.
I revise obsessively. It's important to me to have a clean page.
I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick.
I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too.
I've never tried writing at a coffeehouse. I just know instinctively it's not for me.
On Flash, I thought of myself as a spice character; come in, do a little dance, and I go.
Michael Scofield is someone everyone can relate to, but nobody would want to be in his shoes.
My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all.
Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.
I think that's the beauty of the current setup, is that Legends is meant to be a bit of a revolving door.
If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time.
I think ultimately that's why the audience will tune in longterm, for the characters and the relationships.
I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.
I had my one guest star on The Flash, and that became several guest stars, and then they mentioned this new show.
An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.
I spend my weekends sleeping and watching DVDs, and eating at restaurants within a 2-block radius of my apartment.
Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.
I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.
I'm hoping that what I am or what I'm not ethnically doesn't limit me in anyone else's eyes. I guarantee you it doesn't in mine.
My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up.
There's nothing the Internet can tell me about myself that I don't already know. The rest is foolishness and people killing time.
This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film.
You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.
My first gig in the business was a guest star on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' so I'm neck deep in sci-fi. It's been a very good genre to me.
I have to laugh internally when I'm asked in interviews what nightspots I like to hit. I just don't have answers... so sometimes I make them up.
It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.
Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself.
When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.
I surrender the idea of having some kind of control over the arc of my career a lot of the time because you never know what tomorrow's going to bring.
Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars.
I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often.
My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.
There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.
There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate.
I think there's something about evil that is thoughtless and relentless and incredibly frightening because it can't be reckoned with, reasoned with or stopped.
There was no script, but I said, 'I'm in, regardless' and was committed to Legends before I saw a single page.It was a lovely surprise to find so much meat on the bone.
I'm very pleased with being a part of the Bean Pole family. It's a relationship that makes sense to me. I'm very pleased to have my name associated with Bean Pole Jeans.
I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.
A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.
I didn't come to Hollywood to get on magazine covers or start my Porsche collection or to enjoy that kind of lifestyle, to go to the right parties and meet the right people.
I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.
Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities - a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say.