I never met him. But just growing up where Deacon Jones did, he motivated me to be great, showing the NFL was possible.

My guy growing up was Deacon Jones from Eatonville, Florida, where I'm from.

Me, coming from a low-income background, I really didn't take my studies serious as a young kid.

Growing up where I'm from, some people are afraid of cops. They don't really like cops. And what a lot of people don't realize is, they're really not the bad guys. They're really on our side, they're really trying to help us out. And sometimes, we don't understand that.

I'm not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.

Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

I love writing comedy and being a part of it, but as a visual, physical presence in a story, I probably am more impactful in drama. It's not really a tribute to my dexterity and wide-ranging talent so much as it is a person finally getting to where they should've been from the start.

I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.