D. B. Sweeney

I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.

If I'm not going to bet on myself, why would anyone else bet on me.

When you do a play, or even a movie, you have weeks to finesse your character. You really understand why they do what they do. In TV, you get new material weekly about your character.

I wanted to disprove the notion that you couldn't open a great restaurant in a casino.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.