Corey Hawkins

“I'm the guy coming from Juilliard.”

“What everyone loved about '24' is still there - the clock, the tick, the lean-in factor, the pacing.”

“I like to surprise myself. I like to surprise my fans, too.”

“With '24: Legacy,' there are a lot of people who are super-excited about the show. But there are a lot of people who are very skeptical.”

“My mother's a police officer, so there was only so much trouble I could get myself into. But my father grew up on the other side.”

“I have members of my family who are in the military. I have friends who are in the military. Classmates who served in the military.”

“I sort of have to have a positive outlook.”

“The tension between the Capulets and the Montagues is like a gang rivalry, and that has everything to do with Compton.”

“Even before I was working off-Broadway, there were lots of different TV shows that I would actually say 'no' to, and my agents would be like, 'Are you crazy?' but they stuck with me because they know the kind of things that excite me.”

“We are a diverse people, man.”

“I like doing things that people wouldn't necessarily think I can do.”

“If the challenge wasn't there, there's no reason to say 'yes' to the role.”

“I prefer to do in-person interviews, but it's all a part of the job, and I love talking about these movies so much.”

“I think, in our darkest moments, you have to find the humor, and you have to find the lightness.”

“The only pressure, as an actor, is to step into Eric Carter's shoes and make him as fully and as complex and as flawed and as human as I could.”

“I remember seeing the first episode of '24' when I was 13, and to be that face for a 13-year-old and open up that possibility, it shows you the world isn't on fire. There's possibility there.”

“There's no wrong choice because, whatever you choose, that's meant for you.”

“We work so hard on our craft, and once we get out of Duke Ellington, there are not going to be people looking for technique. I worry about that a lot.”

“I know the struggle - trust me. I know how hard it is for us to say 'no' to a lot of things that get offered.”

“Growing up, we never got to see a hero who didn't have superpowers who looked like us, that you could kind of look to and say, 'I could be that guy one day. I could be a patriot. I could be a soldier. I could work in the government and be a hero.'”