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I wasn't a kid trying to become famous. I wasn't a part of any Disney Channel wheelhouse. I was basically a black kid whose parents put him into the business so he could go to college.

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The nature of television is that it's a beast with a lot of opinions. I don't consider myself typecast any more than Neil Patrick Harris was as Doogie Howser or James Gandolifini is as Tony Soprano.

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If you go to talk to Disney about anything related to Mickey Mouse, if you can even get the meeting, you're going to get 50 people in that room. That is the crown jewel of their brand, and so they protect it. And so for better or worse, the crown jewel of my legacy still remains Steve Urkel and Stefan Urquelle.

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I really chose a path after 'Grown Ups' of doing different things that I hadn't tried before, and just trying to take on those challenges.

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I'm not one of those kind of people that likes to beat up the past to validate the present. Certain people think that it's cool to make fun of MC Hammer. I'm like, 'Yeah, but you owned all of his records.'

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As you get older, you start to understand you have to do what you need to do.

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I'm very proud of what I was able to do during the '90s, when baggy pants were in and East/West rap was relevant and all these different things.

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You get hate in this business growing up. When you're a young performer, you just don't get the credit for the work that you did. And it is what it is. You can't walk around with a chip on your shoulder.

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People don't necessarily identify me with doing adult things.

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If you have to go back and spell-check the text you're about to send, you're saying too much.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: November 27th, 1976

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