Jesse Williams

“If someone says, 'Democracy is a sham, those people don't speak for me... the system's rigged,' you say, 'Vote.' Someone says, 'I was making a statement by not voting,' and then you say, 'Well I can't hear it.'”

“Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.”

“I'm an athletic junkie - I play in all the celebrity all-star games, and I've become buddies with a bunch of athletes.”

“We often grow up being told that we can do this or that, but if you don't see anybody that looks like you doing it, you don't believe you can do it. But I had great teachers, and I wanted to be a great teacher.”

“Coming from New York, you're kind of indoctrinated with anti-L.A. sentiment, but California is just a really dope state.”

“Staying true to our goals, Question Bridge as a company and as a project is not singularly about black males. One of the things I'm so excited about Question Bridge is that my vision goes far beyond black males.”

“As an actor, you want to be able to move your character forward into new ground, but also it's really interesting to go backwards and unpeel those layers and the interesting elements of what your character is and what informs the decisions that you make so that you can have as much meat to work with.”