Clark Peters

Then we can see how we fit into that story and how we can either enhance that story, sell it or whatever.

At the end of the day, the star of any story is the story you're telling.

It's not the person whose name is above the title.

And when that becomes more important than the story that we're telling, then we as actors just become commodities.

I push back against that.

I really do.

And as far as reading every episode, I couldn't wait until the next episodes came.

And I was always looking for that moment that said, Kima may be saying something to McNulty, like...

Did you hear what happened to Freeman?

He caught one while he was pumping gas.

I never expected to be there that long, but thank the Lord I was.

I grew up with great respect for the police because in Englewood... Englewood, New Jersey.

Englewood, New Jersey, we knew the police.

We went to school with their children.

They knew our parents.

And so it was almost something that you may wanted to aspire to.

Going through the 60s and 70s, I lost total respect for the police.

because of their abuse of power.

I don't have a lot of respect for them now for that same reason.

Yet, for those who are walking that beat and who are trying to do the right thing, I have the greatest respect for.