Michael Clarke Duncan

When I was coming up, I kept a ton of comic books, almost 300 comic books. Back in the day, they didn't used to cost that much, so I used to keep 'em, collect 'em, trade 'em.

I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.

I'm used to being the big tough guy, the bodyguard type.

Of course, people told me, 'Mikey, you will never be an actor. You don't have the look. You're ugly.'

I think as an actor you want to keep being challenged.

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

So it was a thing that my mother always taught me to go for your goals and never give up no matter what they are, and I started believing that later on in life.

Once an actor told me he went to the Shakespeare School of Acting, and I said, 'I went to the Shakespeare of Acting, too' and he said, 'Oh really?' And I said, 'I went to Shakespeare Elementary School in Chicago.' He didn't take the joke well, he didn't laugh and didn't think it was funny - I thought it was funny. It's all the same to me.

I tell people, 'It's just like a cliche, but it's true: In Hollywood, dreams can come true.'

I'm an emotional person, a very emotional person.

I came up during that time when music, to me, was really music. It wasn't about talking about a woman and calling them a derogatory name or something like that. It was real music.

When I get the chance, I'm at the theaters all the time, trying to check out the latest movies.