“Personally, I love Toronto.”

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

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.

It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”

When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!

Counting obligations under Medicare and Social Security.

A leader’s responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world.

And if they’re not in existence, if this was yet another fabrication by the president, he needs to come clean about it.

In all things rest is sweet; there is sure feit even in honey, even in Aphrodites lovely flowers.

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that’s not too awful either, but never, never give up.

The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other–moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.