“I’ve played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to demented.”

I think always as an actor. I go in knowing how I’m going to play it. That’s about it.

I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself.

I made a concerted effort, last year and this year, to get a range of characters

When a child wants to be accepted, he’ll do anything.

I’m of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe.

The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention.

I remember in the Carpenter version, you got acquainted with the characters and really knew them..

You had that in the Carpenter version, and you have that in this prequel.

There’s always your initial trepidation about doing a remake, but that was alleviated by the fact that it was a prequel.

Certainly, I look for different characters ’cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don’t like to get typecast.

I knew him as a commercial director and thought one of his commercials was great.

I thought it was an interesting take on such a big-budget cult classic

What I like about the Carpenter take on The Thing is the fact that it just has so much suspense.

It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.

I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.

You don’t want to drain yourself. But it pumps you up, gets you in the zone.

X-rays showed that she had cancer of the colon which had already spreed.

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.

Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.

Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!

All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.

Truth survives.

Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.