Reg E. Cathey

It's funny how getting older - or being overlooked and underrated for more than two decades - can make you change your ambitions.

you getting-older change funny

My dad was career Army.

career dad army

I grew up on army bases all over the world, but I'm from Alabama.

over up army world

In Alabama, we have ribs with a white sauce, which is really great.

which great sauce white

The idea of ignoring your past, only to confront it later in life, is a familiar experience whether you come here from Hungary or French Canada or Ireland.

you experience life past

I think horror or science fiction is another way of telling a modern myth - it's like Ancient Greece; it's like kids couldn't wait for the next 'Orpheus' story, the next 'Jason and the Argonauts.'

wait think science way

I was told I wasn't black enough for certain jobs because of the way I speak and carry myself and because I was raised in Europe. It's why I left L.A.

myself black speak way

The world is being destroyed by psychopaths, so of all the things to be concerned about - acting, it's not really up there, is it?

things being acting world

I don't barbeque myself because that would involve me cooking. And whereas I can, I'm not a very good cook.

good myself me cooking

There's something about being around a long time that puts stuff in perspective.

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