Ken Howard

“I grew up playing for Manhasset High on Long Island on a team with six black guys.”

“Some people really think I'm an ex-pro player.”

“The biggest concern for most actors has and always will be getting enough work - it's just part of our profession - but a real change is the idea that performers have to be more versatile and entrepreneurial in their careers.”

“In a media landscape that has grown in unimaginable ways, there are more projects that have come along now than ever. While the number of projects has grown, many players are vying for that audience.”

“I was from a town called Manhasset, very nice town out on the North Shore of Long Island, New York, but there was a little area, predominantly black population, and it was a small school. I played on the basketball team when I was a junior, and I was the only white guy on the starting five, the top seven actually, and we were really good.”

“Sports is a terrific metaphor that's hardly been touched on TV.”

“One of the things that make actors good is their capacity to listen.”

“I'm really happy to have been part of spreading the game of basketball and growing the game in a place like Turkey.”

“When television gets in trouble is when it forgets that it all begins with the written word.”

“Service that benefits the community and those in need is an act that betters us all.”

“I was raised on Long Island. There were a lot of cops and firefighters who lived there.”

“I've always been attracted to independent, outspoken women.”

“The reason I got into this union was to bring people together.”

“I loved that outrageous, creative style of city ball. 'Logic is the death of art,' they taught me at Yale. Maybe in basketball, too.”

“A lack of diversity permeates our industry, and SAG-AFTRA as an organization is committed to effecting change.”

“I love the idea of getting into the mind of the criminal.”