Malcolm-Jamal Warner Quotes

"Doing 'Malcolm and Eddie' was probably the foremost miserable years of my life."

"Obviously, we all look at things through the filter of our own experiences."

"Our differences - in race, sexual preference, economic - have always been used as distractions to keep us divided. We get so wrapped up in our own stories that we can't hear each other."

"Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself."

"I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do."

"But there's a huge blessing that comes from being a part of a show like 'The Cosby Show' that sets such a high standard of quality - it touched so many people on so many different levels."

"My perspective was always being on a number one show doesn't mean anything if I'm not still working consistently at 40 to 50 and 60 years old."

"Being a celebrity can be very intoxicating and very addicting. And I've always been afraid of that, because I've grown up post-almost every child star out there who has gone wayward."

"Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches."

"African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures."

"People kind of have a misconception, because when someone calls me Theo and I correct them, say, 'No, my name is Malcolm,' they think I have an attitude about it and I don't want to be associated with the show."

"I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself."

"Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career, and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself. I started playing bass in November 1996, and by June 1998 I was doing my first live show."

"I planned so well for my post-'Cosby Show' life that I don't have to make desperate acting choices that conflict with what my values."

"I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do. I never wanted to look at character I've done and cringe."

"I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids."

"In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up."

"The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before."

"I was doing community theater since I was about nine."

"I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine."

"The Bill Cosby I know has been great to me and great for a lot of people. What he's done for comedy and television has been legendary and history-making. What he's done for the black community and education has been invaluable. That's the Bill Cosby I know."

"People who feel under-appreciated sometimes make desperate moves."

"I would love to play just an all out bad guy who has fun being malicious. It would be totally unexpected, and that's what would make it exciting. Plus, bad guys don't see themselves as bad guys, so you could have fun with that."

"My band, Miles Long, is a jazz-funk spoken word band. There's jazz sensibilities, but I'm a bass player, so I'm very much into the head-bobbing vibe with sophisticated lyrics."

"I've always been a poet. My dad went to Lincoln University with Gil-Scott Heron, so I came out of the womb listening to Gil-Scott Heron."

"Though my music audience is cross-generational, like my television audience, my core demographic is people like myself. People who have grown up on hip-hop, but hip-hop doesn't necessarily speak to us any longer."

"Theater is my favorite platform. Television is my favorite paycheck. The more television I can do, the more theater I can do."

"I don't belong to a motorcycle club, but I know a lot of guys who do. I ride with some guys who do."

"There's something very surreal about driving a truck, looking in the rearview mirror, and seeing 20 cop cars behind you. Even though you know, 'We're just shooting. This is just a scene; we're making a movie here,' it's very unsettling."

"It's hard not to look at the road of the media and how the media is a big part of painting a picture for public opinion."