Mike Colter

As professionals, we just try to keep the jokes to a minimum, when we're in a certain situation. When we're not doing…

— Mike Colter

I'm pretty relaxed on what people should be able to do as long as they're not hurting anybody else.

— Mike Colter

I'll get a nice little break, after doing Jessica Jones and Luke Cage. Whether I'm in [his show], I don't know, but…

— Mike Colter

As for facial hair, I think I decided it was a good look after graduate school. I always shave it myself and…

— Mike Colter

I think sometimes we get wrapped up in awards... ultimately, it's just a moment in time, and it passes.

— Mike Colter

What makes Luke Cage unique isn't him being black. Yes, he is black, but he has other things.

— Mike Colter

Harlem for me is Atlanta, Las Vegas, and Washington, D.C., in one place. You have very significant churches that have had national…

— Mike Colter

If you're not enjoying your work, what's the point?

— Mike Colter

When you're a black man in a hoodie, all of a sudden you're a criminal. That's something we shouldn't have to deal…

— Mike Colter

Luke Cage isn't going to throw a pity party for himself. He literally says to himself, 'This is the world I'm in.…

— Mike Colter

I'm actually filming all the time, and I don't have much time to do anything. I've always been that way.

— Mike Colter

Some people act like there is so much mystery in getting fit, but the only secret there is to making it happen…

— Mike Colter

As long as you can throw people a curveball, that's what you're looking for. Because the minute they can define you, the…

— Mike Colter

When something tragic happens in the world and I realize that, for the most part, I am powerless to stop it.

— Mike Colter

Auditions are great, and you definitely want to continue to make progress as an actor, you want to continue to see some…

— Mike Colter

You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food…

— Mike Colter

When you take the job, you never think about how many days you're going to take bullets. Sometimes you go on set…

— Mike Colter

As artists, we are so not in control most of the time of the content or the narrative of our characters, and…

— Mike Colter

I respond to women who have their stuff together, who are in charge, who don't need men to do things for them.…

— Mike Colter

It's a long arc and a long storyline, and I think it leaves us in a great place to see how we…

— Mike Colter

Most of the people you look at in the early days of Harlem - the zoot suits, the music, the style of…

— Mike Colter

I did want to play a superhero. I mean, who doesn't when you're a kid? I would have loved to be a…

— Mike Colter

This show [Jessica Jones] was exploring the aftermath, and that is unique. You're sitting there going, "I know what happens. This is…

— Mike Colter

My family, they're not really that involved in what I do. Career-wise, they're very supportive. They're involved after the fact. I don't…

— Mike Colter

I've always wanted to be on a show that's well respected and had critical acclaim and that people like to watch, and…

— Mike Colter