Michael Ealy

If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script.

My mom and father are extremely proud. They love it when I don't die. I've done so many movies where I've died that their first question when I book a job is, 'So, are you going to die in this?'

Any time you audition and get it, you earned it.

Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.

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.

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