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» A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.

» Everyone has their challenges.

» Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.

» I'm pretty much a couch potato.

» I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often.

» I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too.

» I rented every Anthony Hopkins film available. And Hopkins met me halfway, like they put a mole on his left temple like the one I have. Hopkins was able to watch home movies of me when I was younger as well.

» I worked with the same trainer that worked with Denzel Washington in THe Hurricane. It was three months of training, five days a week, 4 to 5 hours a day. This was followed by a month of choreography.

» I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick.

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

» In the 1940s, race imposed many limitations.

» My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

» My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.

» Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.

» There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.

» There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate.

» 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.

» This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film.

» You develop a lot of scars, being interracial.

» 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.

» 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.

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