Columbus Short

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

Everybody who knows me is like, 'Dude, you've got to chill out.' I can't not work, given where I want to be.

I want to play Martin Luther King. That is absolutely a role and a character who is important to the landscape of the world that I really want to play.

I'd grown accustomed to seeing myself as someone who, if fallible and unworthy, had nevertheless managed to do one thing well enough to get recognition for it.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.