Isaac Keys

As much as I wanted to.

Or sometimes they said that I should have.

And it was frustrating.

I was angry.

I was like, I still want to prove myself in this sport.

So acting came about by default because...

Again, being around some people in a good group, being around some other actors, which was like at a panel discussion in Essence Festival, I was around some actors and I just was watching.

I saw how they move and I just saw them just seeing black men doing their thing on the TV screen and representing black men well.

I started to kind of have this fixation with, okay, well, let me do acting.

People look at me like, oh, you're going to do acting.

You got to take acting classes first.

I'm like, okay.

Fine.

You know, I have no problem because I understood that from the game of football and life.

So it took a while because I'm telling you, I used to be in acting classes.

Finally, we go to L.A.

I would drive out there from Phoenix where my house was and overnight and try to fit in and sleep on my friend's couches or cousin's couch.

And, you know, watch I do audition or go to acting class.

And I would be intimidated in class because it'd be people that were really good.

They already almost had the lines memorized.