“I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, ...” — Derek Luke Quote

“I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting.”

“Denzel's quality, I think, is his faith. You have all the action in your head and you have to believe in it and just do it. That's what he does and that's what he taught me to do.”

“When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart.”

“Even when I was young, there were times I could tell my mother wasn't handling my father's death well, but she was trying to make life for us as normal as possible. She was shielding us from loss and the meaning of loss, though she ended up losing control of her own life in many ways.”

“I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.”

“My parents weren't keen on me watching television when I was growing up, in the 70s and 80s, which is ironic given that I've ended up working in it.”