Quotes from Malcolm-Jamal Warner

A lot of times what happens is, not even just with child actors, but people in general, is they get so caught up in the now. The hot song, the hot TV show, the hot movie. You're not saying 'OK, this is cool, but where am I trying to be 20 years from now?' That's always been in the forefront of my mind.

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.

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

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

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.

People who feel under-appreciated sometimes make desperate moves.

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

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.

I was doing community theater since I was about nine.

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

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.

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

I'm trying to break the stereotypical role now of the Theo-type character because, in my post-'Cosby' life, as I call it, I don't want to be known as just the kind of guy who can play a Theo Huxtable-type character. I want to be known as being able to do more things, being able to stretch.

What's interesting is, say, the O.J. trial and when the verdict came out, and there were people who celebrated, and there were people who thought that he's guilty, and it's a crime. Those reactions tend to be filtered through our own experiences.

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.

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.

I have accepted that even when Mr. Cosby is long gone, I will still get asked about him.