Quotes from Wendell Pierce

Ultimately, I would love to do 'The Emperor of Ocean Park' by Stephen Carter.

I just know that 'Treme' broke ground when it comes to music and film on television.

The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.

New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.

The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.

Whenever I go someplace I always buy something, collect something, to help me remember the trip. So I guess I collect mementos from my many travels.

One of the richest countries in the history of the world having communities where people have to go over half an hour to get to fresh produce and food is unacceptable.

The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.

I tell people all the time: get some training and become a student of your craft.

Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those people that whenever he talked to you, you felt like you were the center of the universe.

I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.

The key, I always thought, to my career would be diversity - a diversity of not only the type of work that you do but the mediums.

My dad prepared me for the worst of times while also enabling me to succeed in the best. He taught me to confront the insidiousness of racism head on, no matter what the ramification, so it will not fester. Defeat it and get past it. That was The Talk. Nothing scared me after that.

The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.

I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.

In 1974, when the city of Boston was desegregating its schools, I watched the news with my dad and saw the police escorts in riot gear, the protesters screaming at the buses, small frightened faces in their windows.

Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.'

'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.

There's no greater honor, as an actor, to be a part of a project that changes lives, and awakens and enlightens and entertains.

Art imitating life and life imitating art, and it's beyond the job - it will always be a marked period in my life.

One of the great things my grandparents and grandparents taught me was, there are those who don't have your best interests at heart.

I would love to see a real story about Fred Hampton.

The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.

Coming out of school, sometimes people can be theater snobs. I only wanted to do theater, highbrow stuff. But what I learned very quickly is there can be good material in every genre.