I Would Say My Grandmother Would Be

I Didn't Have A Knee-jerk Reaction Like Some People Did To The Language And The Violence. My Stepfather Was A History Teacher At Lincoln High School In Dallas. So, I Was Already Familiar With The N-word And The Brutality Of Slavery. What I Was Drawn To Was The Love Story Between Django And Broomhilda And How He Defends And Gets The Girl In The End. I Thought It Was Just An Amazing And Courageous Project.

I Play A Slave. How Black Is That? I Have To Wear Chains. How Whack Is That? But Don’t Worry. I Get Free. I Save My Wife And I Kill All The White People In The Movie. How Great Is That?

I Want To Thank My Daughter, Who Told Me, 'if You Don't Win, Dad, You're Still Good,' ... Who Taught Me How To Act.

Also, I Think Having That Comic Gene Kind Of Makes You Look At Things In A Different Way. If You Take Yourself So Seriously, Eventually You End Up One Of Those People Having A 'do Not Disturb' Sign On Their Lives. You See Them Drawing The Curtains And They Don't Even Realize That They've Kind Of Drifted Off Somewhere.

I've Had To Be A Man Since I Was 12 Or 13. I Had A Job. And I Was Playing The Piano For People Twice My Age. Handling Responsibility Is What Makes A Man A Man.