Jeffrey Wright

“If a director can't figure out what they might get from me or whether he or she wants to work with me based on what I've done, then I can't tell them anything more than what they don't know already.”

“I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.”

“I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.”

“I do a little Reddit, yeah! I pop in every now and again.”

“We have more guns in our country than citizens. I think we could with maybe 100 million fewer guns. And I think we'd be OK.”

“It's one thing to know your lines, another to be able to deliver them. The taste of the pudding is in the delivery.”

“That period, doing 'Angels in America' in '94 and then filming with 'Basquiat' in '95, those were gateway years for me as an artist. Two gateways, one into the film industry and one into the world of theater, each formative to me in different, equally essential ways.”

“I, Jeffrey Wright, the actor, actually signed on to the 'Westworld' Delos website. My profile came back as a Libertine, which is probably reasonably accurate.”

“I was a political science major in college because that's where my head was.”