“I know I'm supposed to say this, but I really, genuinely think Matt Da...” — Ato Essandoh Quote

“I know I'm supposed to say this, but I really, genuinely think Matt Damon is a great dude.”

“I was in chemical engineering at Cornell University. My girlfriend at the time dared me to do a play. I knew there was something I wanted, not necessarily engineering.”

“'Copper' is my first period piece. It's funny because I've been doing a lot of episodes of 'Elementary' with Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu; they keep bringing me back on the show, and so I go from being an outstanding black doctor to being a kind of hood, ex-car thief who went through rehab in 'Elementary.'”

“They just think I'm a white dude. Every once in a while someone thinks I'm Jewish. I get a lot of stuff, but never Latino.”

“All we want is a confident dude to come straight up... maybe. Just walk up and say, 'Hey, what's up?' And start from there.”

“I am definitely trying not to take films that are mostly about dude problems, not because I don't think they're worthy problems, but there are a lot of people who will take those.”