I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is.
To be honest I don't think I was any great shakes as a theatre actor because everything I was doing was really small in size - intimate.
My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general.
I am a very judgmental person. Of myself and other people. I recognise it's a great fault, but I have no power over that.
On 'Prison Break,' I tended to talk a lot! They gave me a lot of fun words to say. There were always these great mouthfuls of words that would fall out!
Jessie J is a great, great girl. I'm a friend and have always been a fan of hers. I'm happy to see her doing her thing.
Having a clone would make it so much easier - it would be great to send a clone to a TV station when I have to get up at 4am.
It was tough doing 'Underneath the Lintel' in New Jersey in the wintertime, but rewarding. Those audiences were lively and interactive. On-stage was great, but off-stage was difficult.
In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.
I can't sprinkle sprinkles on. I lose control when I have sprinkles. I'm shaky. I still remember the great sprinkle accident of 1982.
I'm a big fan of all the great movie devils, from Walter Huston to Ray Walston to Al Pacino to Jack Nicholson.
I cut out bread, I don't eat after 6 P.M., and I go on walks, and it's had a great effect.
I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke every last one of 'em.
If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move.
You try to go where the great scripts are, if you can, or you go where the not great scripts are, because that's what's being offered to you.
I just want to keep laying down really great, strong characters, and the more I go unrecognized, the better job I feel I'm doing.
There's always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.
There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.
I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King and I've got a plant catalogue on the go.
Skateboarding helps a ton with balance, precision, with air awareness... it gets your senses to be spot-on and it's also a great way to take my mind off things.
I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.
