I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind.
The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power.
If you look at any kind of modern organization and you think, 'What are the foremost tools of power?' You will find that it is information.
In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule.
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.
The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength.
Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It's black and white - dramatic. You have to be strong.
For many Sudanese, it's for strength they choose to be Christian rather than Muslim. My mum was a Muslim but she became a Christian later.
I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go. Call that a strength or a failing, whatever.
I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script.
My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years.
I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened.
I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.
Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone says, 'You're a success now.'
I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
Just when I think it couldn't get any bigger, 'Tuskegee' reaches a new level of success.
I'm totally comfortable today with the success that Omar and 'The Wire' have brought me - living with that character, being recognized and remembered for that character.
