Andre Braugher

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.

What's so fun about doing the same thing again and again? You can only slap the handcuffs on a guy so many times.

I've been involved with great scripts and so-so leadership, and it's clear to me that leadership is the most compelling factor.

Leadership is by far the most important quality when it comes to making a show that's going to last and of superb quality, something classy and fun.

My goal is to broaden and deepen the range of African-American characters on television, so I always try to show human beings.

You can't separate the phenomenal birth of unionism in the United States of America from the Pullman porters. This same small group of men, who grew to be 10,000 strong, was also the organizational foundation for the civil rights movement and all of the gains that were made in the '40s and the '50s. That, and the black church.

We lived in a ghetto. I could have pretended I was hard or tough and not a square. I wound up not getting in trouble. I don't consider myself to be especially wise, but I will say that it's pretty clear that some people want to get out and some people don't. I wanted out.

If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that.

I worked with people I admire; Josh Lucas, who I'd worked with many many years ago on a pilot called The Class of 61 and Kurt Russell, and so there were a variety of different people that I enjoyed working with.

I've committed myself to perfecting the art of the straight man. I try really hard not to crack up.

They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.

To me, the psychology behind the character is critical. So I work very hard to get into the mind of the man that I'm going to be playing, because number one, I want to understand why he's doing what he's doing. It's essential, it's absolutely essential.