A biography for J. August Richardshasn’t been written yet.
“Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.”
“Even when I'm playing a lawyer or a doctor, I want to play a person. A human being.”
“I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.”
“To steal a term from one of my Twitter followers, 'Deathlok' is the 'anti-villain.' He's on the side of the bad guys, but he obviously doesn't want to be there.”
“When we wrapped 'Angel,' I definitely had a moment where I thought, 'Wow, that was the best job I'm ever gonna have.'”
“When you're doing superhero stunts, the objective is to look as cool as humanly possible.”
“I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!”
“I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.”
“Oddly enough, I've always really loved Nightcrawler. You know who else they didn't use enough was Phoenix. I just thought her story line was so tragic. I was just really drawn to that character as well.”
“Everything I've ever learned about acting - and I went to theater school - was about playing what the character wants and throwing yourself fully into going after what the character wants.”
“The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.”
“Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.”
“My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.”
“I thought, 'Oh, this is great,' because maybe someone who does look like me will watch 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and realize that they can be an actor if they want to be, or they can be a superhero. They can have a hero that looks like them as well.”
“The interesting thing for me is, if I met Michael Peterson in person, I'd want him to let himself off the hook just a little bit.”
“In the 'Angel' days, all there was was a community that was like a chat room. If you were looking for feedback, you had to look for it.”
“Anyone who's trying to be there for their family and trying to take care of their children is a hero to me.”
“I definitely was a big comic collector as a kid.”