Sterling K. Brown

Every character I play is me.

— Sterling K. Brown

I'm a huge fan of 'Predator.'

— Sterling K. Brown

Always have an attitude of gratitude.

— Sterling K. Brown

Any great art is meant to illuminate the human condition.

— Sterling K. Brown

I discovered that I love being on stage in high school.

— Sterling K. Brown

You can't play someone and judge them at the same time.

— Sterling K. Brown

Before I was an actor, I was a fan.

— Sterling K. Brown

I'm a little kid from St. Louis, Missouri, on the inside.

— Sterling K. Brown

I like working. I think being on set is one of my favorite places in the world.

— Sterling K. Brown

Dialect or the speech of the people is capable of expressing whatever the people are.

— Sterling K. Brown

If I can do quality work with wonderful writers and directors and producers... that's the cherry on top.

— Sterling K. Brown

I remember the great work that Norman Lear did. That was an incredible heyday to be a black actor.

— Sterling K. Brown

Running gives me the confidence to be at my peak throughout the rest of my day.

— Sterling K. Brown

If you haven't done shows that are on everyone's radar, then you're something out of nowhere.

— Sterling K. Brown

The prism through which you experience life is so unique. There is no objective experience.

— Sterling K. Brown

I lived in St. Louis, Missouri, and now my kids are growing up in Los Angeles, so that's culturally very different.

— Sterling K. Brown

Understand what you want, and want it as badly as you can. Make the stakes for yourself as life-or-death as you can.

— Sterling K. Brown

Sarah Paulson doesn't lie. Like, in life. But she doesn't lie onscreen, and you can't take your eyes off somebody who always…

— Sterling K. Brown

When I walked up on stage at the Emmys, and when people stood up, it was a really sort of emotional, overwhelming…

— Sterling K. Brown

With any character you portray, you can never play the end in the beginning. You have to pursue and attack your intention…

— Sterling K. Brown

I have gay people in my family who weren't able to openly discuss homosexuality, and I feel like that's shifted, especially here…

— Sterling K. Brown

The humanity that is given to other people isn't given to us. There is an expendability that comes along with being African…

— Sterling K. Brown

I go to grad school at NYU, and I learn all these things about speech and voice and games. It's like camp…

— Sterling K. Brown

My family did a lot of road trips across these continental United States when I was a kid. Twenty or so of…

— Sterling K. Brown

Don't become too attached to your own myopia. Just because you've found a way to do things doesn't mean it's the way…

— Sterling K. Brown

Interestingly enough, I feel what the show [OJ Simpson] was able to accomplish in a really masterful way is that White America…

— Sterling K. Brown

My wife [ Ryan Michelle Bathe] is the engine that makes our family drive. In the midst of everything she's able to…

— Sterling K. Brown

We've been married for 10 years. We have a five-year-old boy and an 11-month-old boy and life is good. It's a constant…

— Sterling K. Brown

I think the therapeutic part of acting is allowing myself to step into another human being's shoes. It allows me the ability…

— Sterling K. Brown

It's a very frightening feeling to feel like you can have a busted taillight or wear a hoodie or be playing in…

— Sterling K. Brown

Unfortunately I feel like a lot of the issues that the show [OJ Simpson ] was dealing with are still very much…

— Sterling K. Brown

I was at Stanford University up in the West Coast Bay Area, so the biggest song of my freshman year was 'I…

— Sterling K. Brown

My dad passed away when I was 10.

— Sterling K. Brown

I can't let other people dictate how I see myself.

— Sterling K. Brown

I never assume people are going to recognize me.

— Sterling K. Brown

I love me some Kendrick Lamar, love J. Cole.

— Sterling K. Brown

I didn't grow up feeling very handsome.

— Sterling K. Brown

I have a big family of big people.

— Sterling K. Brown

I always thought that I would just be working in obscurity in perpetuity.

— Sterling K. Brown

We've seen many Black men lose their life over the past couple of years. Not only just heard about it.

— Sterling K. Brown