Actor

I get overwhelmed when I approach things intellectually.

For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people.

To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, more often than not you're quote unquote white. So if you're mixed, you embrace the mainstream culture more than the African-American culture.

I'm very, very, very interested in martial arts.

I'm looking for human stories to do.

I'm from the Midwest, so I always assumed, 'Well, I have to think badly of myself, because that's being humble.'

Success isn't measured by the amount of people that watch you unless you allow it to be.

I'm adopted, so I didn't know my father, but apparently he was pretty tall.

It's when you're true to yourself that resonates with other people.

My parents were not big sports fans, but my mother loved Barry Sanders, but she wasn't a huge fan. Now she likes Calvin Johnson. He's such an amazing athlete and such a wonderful, humble guy.

With a lot of my comedic heroes, I'm trying to make sure that, wherever they might have gotten off-track a bit, I've learned that lesson.

I'm a great consumer of kung-fu movies - mid-'70s to late-'80s.

A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.

There's a very famous South African playwright named Athol Fugard, and I'd be in any play he's ever did.

I love dialects and accents; they're something that really resonate with me and that I find fascinating.

Being a Lions fan is like being a Cubs fan: you just have to keep going. You don't have a choice. You can't give up, because one day, when it happens - and I believe it'll happen - then you can really savor it because you were there in the doldrums, and you get to be there in the victory.

I was raised Catholic, so guilt shackles you from acting like a complete fool all the time.

I'm trying every day, when I meet a new human being, to not have the first thought that comes into my mind be, 'Are they going to like me?' I'm allowed to say, 'I like this, and I don't like that.'

Everybody puts on airs, regardless of race.