The Advice I Would Give To Someone

You Might Have Seen A Housefly, Maybe Even A Superfly, But I Bet You Ain't Never Seen A Donkey Fly! Ha, Ha!

If You're An Artist Like A Really, Really Long Time, It Stops Being A Performance. I'm Not Performing Anymore. I Reveal Myself To The Audience... I Show You Some Of Me. It's Not A Show No More.

I Started Out As An Impressionist And That’s All About Observing, How People Move, Their Voice Quality, Their Attitudes And Quirks.

Whenever I Am On Camera Or Doing Anything On Mic, I Don't Have Any Process At All. I Just Do It And, When I'm Finished, It Goes Away. There Is No Process. I Wish There Were Some Techniques To It. I Just Turn It On And Off, And Then I Go Home.

Theres This Little Box That African-american Actors Have To Work In, In The First Place, And I Was Able To Rise Above That Box. I Could Have Done A Bunch Of Movies Where I Stayed As The Axel Foley Or Reggie Hammond Persona. But I Didnt Want To Be Doing The Same Thing All The Time. Every Now And Then, You Crash And Burn, But Thats Part Of It.