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When You Are The Avatar For The Writer/director, A Lot Of Times, I Just Trusted Him. If He Had A Choice, Even If It Wasn't Necessarily What Was My First Impulse, I Was Like, "billy Ray Has Been Living With This For Two Years Before I Even Came On Board, So I'm Going With Him."

For Every Role, I Brought Certain Elements Of The Character. Even On White Collar Over Six Years, I Tried To Keep The Set Fun And Breezy And Howard Hawks-y And Very Of The Tone Of The Show.

I've Never Cared About How Successful Or How Big I Was Going To Be. I Just Wanted To Be Part Of A Story That Affected People, Made Them Laugh Or Cry. To Me, That Was More Important Than Having My Face On Some Billboard.

I Had Just Finished Reading The Day Of The Locust When This Piece Was Brought To My Attention, And I Was Like, "how Do You Create Art In The System, The Way It Is?" Looking Around The Studio Film Landscape, There Are All Of These Great Superhero Movies, Which Is Fantastic, Especially For My Kids, But It's Hard To Find Real Art House Films In The Studio System, These Days.

What We Really Have To Do Is Stop The Adjective Before The Job Title — Whether It's 'black Actor,' A 'gay Actor' Or 'anything Actor,' Everybody Thinks That Equality Comes From Identifying People, And That's Not Where Equality Comes From. Equality Comes From Treating Everybody The Same Regardless Of Who They Are. I Hope The Media And The Press Catches On To That Because It's Time To Move Out Of 1992.