Being a celebrity doesn't have an iota of value when you're looking death in the eye.

When it comes to African Americans and African American actors, Hollywood has always felt that if you can make us laugh, that's fine, but we don't need to see you do a 'Schindler's List,' where there's no jokes or music or comedic through-line.

Certainly, those of us in the entertainment industry, we are part of creating fear in people - 'fear' for me stands for 'false evidence appearing real.' We create fantasy, and in certain ways that's wonderful because it allows people to escape. But it can suck people into wanting to achieve something that isn't real.

I've been trying to make a difference as an actor. I want to play characters that move people, have them look at their lives differently, or give them an escape.

I would suggest that folks who have a platform of so-called celebrity, to the extent that they don't use that platform, or if they just use it for their own self-aggrandizement, it is certainly fed in a way that it goes to waste.

Screening for colon cancer can stop cancer in its tracks.

On the male side of my family, cancer has been very insidious, and so I'm just attempting to live a lifestyle that doesn't follow in their footsteps.

Dr. King said, 'We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.' Which says to me no matter how well I may be doing in Hollywood, if a young brother or sister in Louisiana, the South Bronx, the South Side of Chicago, South Central Los Angeles - is not doing well, then I'm not doing very well.

There's nothing wrong with wanting a partner and doing the things to have one. To protect ourselves, we have to say, 'I don't need one.'

On 'CSI: NY,' the audience knew I was a really good guy, and I caught the bad guy.

Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office.

All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.

So many of our young women today, they're growing up without a father, but they're still thirsty for that and desiring positive male love.

The most impactful place that I've been to where I was just completely awestruck, happy, moved is Victoria Falls between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is probably the most beautiful and romantic place in the world.

Without writers, none of the entertainment would exist. It starts with writers. Writers are the most important piece of the entire puzzle.

I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to stay and build healthy relationships has had on the black family and black children.

My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer.

If you can't get excited about living life, then what are you doing?

Many of us are in are in our own prisons that aren't made of iron bars.

You can live a healthy lifestyle and do the best to be aware of your body and conscious, and that's what I attempt to do.

I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure.

You deserve a great life. I want to see you become unreasonably happy. And you can. And you will.

The word 'courage,' one of my favorite words, the root or the etymology of that word is 'cour,' which means heart. I think true courage is actually following your heart and not getting or succumbing to what other people's definition of what your life should be. Live your life.

Once you have a felony conviction on your record, one of the most difficult things to do is to break the cycle of recidivism.