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"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."
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"You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it."


"I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional."


"They told me at the end of that test that they wanted me to be a part of this project. I walked out and had a moment of clarity where I thought, not many people will ever have this moment."


"My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all."


"There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer."


"If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time."


"I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors."


"I made a decision not to work out because I'm lazy and also, the character is not a superhero. I didn't want him to be a buff guy with Jackie Chan moves because the point is he's smarter than your average Joe."


"You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people."


"I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got the script on Friday, went to the audition on Monday and got the part on Tuesday. I was shooting the pilot a week later. I didn't have time to be nervous - it happened so quickly."
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