Omar Epps
Omar Epps
Omar Hashim Epps is an American actor, rapper, songwriter, and record producer. His film roles include Major League II, Juice, Higher Learning, Scream 2, The Wood, In Too Deep, and Love and Basketball. His television work includes the role of Dr. Dennis Gant on the medical drama series ER, J. Martin Bellamy in Resurrection and Dr. Eric Foreman on the Fox medical drama series House from 2004 to 2012...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth20 July 1973
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Twenty years from now, I see myself being at the helm of a multimedia conglomerate, a powerful company with a solid film division, a budding music division, a solid television division, ... And I want to get into advertising as well.
We're in Hollywood. I meet people like that every day.
He made it a lot of fun, ... That was the fun part.
Classic film, ... but when you see it, you'll see why you need to see the violence. It justifies everything you've heard about it -- everything that makes it an iconic film. You know what I mean? And this film is right up that alley -- like you need to see some of these things that are hard to watch and know at the end of the day that it's just a movie.
He's young and he's cocky, and then he grows up, ... My character learns a lot about life, that basketball isn't everything. I think this film touches upon how much you are willing to sacrifice for your desires, and as you grow older, how your desires and needs and wants change.
I don't want to give it away, but he'll get some pie in his face sure enough.
A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.
You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.
Writing is the beast unto itself.
There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.
We were all Romans once, I guess.
Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.
Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.
I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.