Terrence Howard

You need it.

But we're all damaged goods, every single one of us.

Or you can be a trained actor and they don't have life experiences.

But you resonate when you can see, oh, wait a minute.

This is touching on something real.

I don't know.

They all say they're just trained and not relying on personal experience.

They say that?

They say that.

Most of them, they don't tell you what they've gone through.

But the reality is...

I can only draw upon the things that I know, the things that I can go and look into somebody else's life or somebody else's path.

But I have to have experienced it enough to where I can now associate myself with it and then tell it honestly.

And you have to have gone through the darkness to know what it's like to be afraid of the dark.

You can't – if you've lived a prissy life, you don't understand – well, you may understand drug addiction.

Because a lot of people in privilege end up in that place.

But if you've never seen somebody doing coke, you don't know how to do that.

You don't even know, even like etiquette.

There's Hollywood etiquette.

We don't know.