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Things Work In Spite Of Me Sometimes.

I Can't Run Away When I'm Scared. I Always Have To Attack. That's How I Deal With Seemingly Difficult Things.

For Me, There Is Nothing More Valuable Than How People Feel In A Movie Theater About A Movie.

Those Who Say I Can, And Those Who Say I Can't - Are Both Usually Right

Just As A Person, Just In My Life, The Way I Was Raised, My Grandmother Made It Very Clear That God Will Make A Way.

You'd Be Surprised How Much You Don't Understand What Other People See Your Actions As; How Other People View The Things You Say And The Things That You Do. And A Lot Of Times Just Clarifying What Your Intentions Are With People Makes A Huge Difference.

I'm The Type Of Person Who Is Always Going To Be Somewhat Dissatisfied With Myself. I'm Never Going To Be Smart Enough. I'm Never Going To Be A Good Enough Father And Husband. I'm Never Going To Be A Good Enough Actor For Myself. I Just Never Will Be, And I Have To Get Comfortable With Waking Up Every Day And Trying To Move Some Little Increment Closer To The Person I Have Always Dreamed Of Being. This Is The Journey.

The First Time That I Performed As An Actor Was The First Day On The Set Of 'the Fresh Prince Of Bel-air.'

Begging For Acknowledgment, Or Even Asking, Diminishes Dignity And Diminishes Power.

I Think For Me, As A Parent, Once My Children Are Thoroughly Informed, They Can Make The Decisions That They Want To Make. The Only Thing That I Demand Is A Complete Comprehension [of The Information].

Danger Is Very Real But Fear Is A Choice.

Face Your Fears

When You're Talking To A Person, It Only Matters What They Are Perceiving. You Only Need Them To Perceive You As A Loving Husband. You Don't Necessarily Need To Be One. That's Always A Good Road, If You Actually Are One. But What People Are Perceiving Will Dictate What Their Life Is, And Ultimately What Your Interaction Is.

Sorry, I'm Allergic To Bullshit.

Remember, Don't Try To Build The Greatest Wall That's Ever Been Built. Focus On Laying A Single, Expertly-placed Brick. Then Keep Doing That, Every Day.

Don't Chase People. Be Yourself, Do Your Own Thing And Work Hard. The Right People - The Ones Who Really Belong In Your Life - Will Come To You. And Stay.

When You're Running And You Are There, There's A Little Person That Talks To You And That Little Person Says “oh, I'm Tired”, “my Lounge's About To Pop”, “i'm So Hurt”, “i'm So Tired”, “there's No Way I Can Possibly Continue”. And You Wanna Quit. Right? That Person, If You Learn How To Defeat That Person When You're Running You Will Learn How To Not Quit When Things Get Hard In Your Life.

Your Words And Thoughts Have Physical Power.

There's A Certain Delusional Quality That All Successful People Have To Have.

There Is No Pain Worse Than Not Achieving A Dream When It Is Your Fault. If God Did Not Want You To Have It, That Is One Thing. But If You Do Not Get What You Desire Because You Are Lazy, There Is No Pain Worse Than That.

For Our Family, The Entire Structure Of Our Life, Our Home, Our Business Relationships - The Entire Purpose Is For Everyone To Be Able To Create In A Way That Makes Them Happy. Fame Is Almost An Inconsequential By-product Of What We're Really Trying To Accomplish. We Are Trying To Put Great Things Into The World, We're Trying To Have Fun, And We're Trying To Become The Greatest Versions Of Ourselves In The Process Of Doing Things We Love.

She Has Got To Have Command Of Her Body. So When She Goes Out Into The World, She's Going Out With A Command That Is Hers. She Is Used To Making Those, Decisions Herself.

You Can't Win Enough, You Can't Have Enough Money, You Can't Succeed Enough. There Is Not Enough. The Only Thing That Will Ever Satiate That Existential Thirst Is Love. And I Just Remember That Day I Made The Shift From Wanting To Be A Winner To Wanting To Have The Most Powerful, Deep, And Beautiful Relationships I Could Possibly Have.

Be Magic Choose And Believe That You Can Do Anything You Set Your Mind To Believe. We Are Who We Choose To Be.

I Like To Look Good, But I Like My Body To Function Well More Than Anything. For Me, It's As Spiritual And Intellectual As It Is Physical. And Emotional. I Enjoy Pushing Myself.

Summer, Summer, Summertime Time To Sit Back And Unwind.

A Sad Thing In Life Is That Sometimes You Meet Someone Who Means A Lot To You, Only To Find Out In The End It Was Never Bound To Be, And You Just Have To Let Go.

My Skin Is Hard When It Comes To My Music. But With My Movies, I'm Still A Virgin In A Lot Of Ways. I'm Not Used To Being Shot Down For No Reason.

The Value Of A Story Isn't That It Just Has A Narcotic Effect. It's That It Awakens Something In You That Makes You Want To Think, That Makes You Talk To Other People, That Stirs Something That Makes You Examine The Story That Eventually Turns Into Self-examination.

There’s A Redemptive Power That Making A Choice Has Rather Than Feeling Like You’re An Effect To All The Things That Are Happening. Make A Choice. Just Decide What It’s Gonna Be, Who You’re Gonna Be, How You Are Going To Do It. Just Decide. And From That Point, The Universe Will Get Out Of Your Way.

Basic Principles: No Matter What, No Matter When, No Matter Who... Any Man Has A Chance To Sweep Any Woman Off Her Feet. He Just Needs The Right Broom.

I've Trained Myself To Illuminate The Things In My Personality That Are Likable And To Hide And Protect The Things That Are Less Likeable.

There's No Reason To Have A Plan B Because It Distracts From Plan A.

I Control Every Interaction With Every Human Being I'm With. I Can Actually Manage Any Situation With 98 Percent Of The People On Earth.

I'm Motivated By Fear...a Fear Of Fear. I Hate Being Afraid To Do Something.

Never Lie, Steal, Cheat, Or Drink. But If You Must Lie, Lie In The Arms Of The One You Love. If You Must Steal, Steal Away From Bad Company. If You Must Cheat, Cheat Death. And If You Must Drink, Drink In The Moments That Take Your Breath Away.

I Just Think That The Gifts That God Has Given Me And The Attention That I Have, I Just Don't Feel Like Acting Is The Limit Of It. I Just Feel Like There's So Much More That I Could Do...and, You Know, Every Day I Wake Up And I Try To Do A Little More And I Just Want The World To Be Different And Better Because I Was Here.

When I Say I Am Going To Run Three Miles, I Run Five. With That Mentality, It Is Actually Difficult To Lose.

A Rapper Is About Being Completely True To Yourself. Being An Actor Is About Changing Who You Are.

True To Yourself

It's Great To Be Black In Hollywood. When A Black Actor Does Something, It Seems New And Different Just By Virtue Of The Fact That He's Black.

My Biggest Emotional Defeat And The Greatest Emotional Pain I've Had As An Actor Was When "wild Wild West" Opened Up To $52 Million. The Movie Wasn't Good. And It Hurt So Bad To Be The No. 1 Movie - To Open At $52 Million - And To Know The Movie Wasn't Good.

I'm Motivated By Fear. Fear Of Fear. I Hate Being Scared To Do Something. And I Think What Developed In My Early Days Was The Attitude That I Started Attacking Things That I Was Scared Of.

I'm Used To People Clapping At The End Of The Movie.

I Think That My Sensibilities Are Becoming Slightly Less Delicate And I'm Venturing Out In A Storytelling World.

I Love Producing. I Am Loving Doing That. I Think That Is My Most Natural Space In The Business. I Just Love Producing Or Editing And That's Where I Thrive.

There Ain't No Problem That Some Other Dude Didn't Have 1,000 Years Ago.

If You're Not Making Someone Else's Life Better, Then You're Wasting Your Time. Your Life Will Become Better By Making Other Lives Better.

Wasting Your Time

I Try To Speak My Points Of View About Black America, And How I Feel About Black Men And The Role That Black Men Should Play In Their Lives With Their Children And In Their Lives With Their Women.

Talent You Have Naturally. Skill Is Only Developed By Hours And Hours And Hours Of Beating On Your Craft.

Greatness Exists In All Of Us.

Can I Say Something? Um, I'm The Type Of Person That If You Ask Me A Question And I Don't Know The Answer, I'm Gonna Tell You That I Don't Know. But I Bet You What, I Know How To Find The Answer And I Will Find The Answer.

Well, All I Know Is What I Read In The Papers.

Just Stay Ready. Stay In Shape And Then You Don't Have To Rush To Train Before The Movie Starts. I'll Show You My Abs Later Because I’m In Shape. But That Idea, If You Stay Ready, You Don’t Have To Get Ready.

Greatness Is Not This, Wonderful, Esoteric, Elusive, God-like Feature That Only The Special Among Us Will Ever Taste. You Know? It's Something That Truly Exists, In, All Of Us. It's Very Simple, This Is What I Believe, And, I'm Willing To Die For It. Period. It's That Simple.

A Human Being Having A Full Emotional Conversation With A Dog Is Funny, Innately. It's One Of Those Things Where You Get In A Scene And You Always Go For What Is The Best Joke, And A Talking Dog For Some Reason, Whatever He Says, Is Hilarious." (about His Role Wiht A Talking Dog In The Forthcoming Men In Black Sequel.

You Can Create Whatever You Want. You Just Have To Know What You Want And Take The Opportunities As They Come Your Way. We Are Who We Choose To Be.

Don't Chase People. Be Yourself, Do Your Own Thing And Work Hard

I Think With Movies I Am Really Connecting To The Joseph Campbell Idea Of The Collective Unconscious.

Collective Unconscious

If Anybody Can Find Someone To Love Them And To Help Them Through This Difficult Thing That We Call Life, I Support That In Any Shape Or Form.

Marriage Equality

If The World Attacks And You Slide Off Track, Remember One Fact, I Got Your Back.

The Way I Like To Measure Greatness Is... How Many People Can You Make Want To Be Better?

Ninety Percent Of What Youre Saying Isnt Coming Out Of Your Mouth.

There's No Easy Way Around It, No Matter How Talented You Are ... Your Talent Is Going To Fail You If You're Not Skilled. If You Don't Study, If You Don't Work Really Hard And Dedicate Yourself To Being Better Every Single Day, You 'll Never Be Able To Communicate With People Your Artistry The Way That You Want!

I Don't Necessarily Believe In Organized Religion.

Organized Religion

I Think My General Disposition On Life Is Finding What's Funny About It. When Something Happens, The First Thing In My Mind Is, "what's Funny About It?"

Begin Each Day As If It Were On Purpose.

Bouncing In The Club Where The Heat Is On, All Night On The Beach Till The Break Of Dawn

Life Is Dangerous And You're Not Gonna Live A Life Without Risk.

I've Always Been Attracted To Characters With Insurmountable Odds And Obstacles, Because Innately, However Inarticulately I've Always Believed That My Dreams And My Desires Can Command And Bend Time And Space To Be The Things That I Want Them To Be.

In Black Neighborhoods, Everybody Appreciated Comedy About Real Life. In The White Community, Fantasy Was Funnier. I Started Looking For The Jokes That Were Equally Hilarious Across The Board, For Totally Different Reasons.

I Believe That Eclecticism Is A Virtue. It May Not Be A Word, But Its Definitely A Virtue.

I Honestly Believe That If I Decided To Be The President Of The United States, I Could Do It. That Might Sound Foolish To Some. But In My Mind, If Ronald Reagan Can Become President, Why Not Will Smith?

Everybody Need A Partner To Stand Right By Their Side. Not Only Down For The Good Times. But Also Down Through The Bad Times.

You Can't Be Scared To Die For The Truth. The Truth Is The Only Thing That Is Ever Going To Be Constant.

You've Got To Run Your Career. What Happens Is A Lot Of Times Artists Have This Talent And They're Just Looking For Somebody To Take It And Do Something With It. And You Have To Be The Creative Force.

Our Thoughts, Our Feelings, Our Dreams, Our Ideas, Are Physical In The Universe.

Gettin' Jiggy Wit It Is, Like, The Next Level Of Cool. It's Cool To The Eighth Power. Some People Are Fly, Some People Are Kind Of Hot. But When You Are The Jiggiest, When You Exude Jiggy-essence, It's The Acme Of Cool.

Goofy Was The Word That Was Used Most Often By My Sisters Because I've Been This Tall Ever Since I Was 12 Years Old.

Reading... There Have Been Millions And Billions And Billions And Gazillions Of People That Have Lived Before All Of Us. There's No New Problem You Could Have - With Your Parents, With School, With A Bully, With Anything. There's No Problem You Can Have That Someone Hasn't Already Solved And Wrote About It In A Book.

I Try To Connect To Human Emotion. I'm Always Looking For Something Primal, Something Really Base That Is Beyond Language, That People Understand Beyond Language.

The Desire To Be A Good Father Is Really Innate. There Aren't A Lot Of Movies That Depict That Relationship Because Men, We Have To Pretend That We're Not That Emotional About It.

I Have No Idea What My Limits Are. I Believe That If I Set My Mind To It, Within The Next Fifteen Years, I Would Be The President Of The United States.

Throughout Life People Will Make You Mad, Disrespect You And Treat You Bad. Let God Deal With The Things They Do, Cause Hate In Your Heart Will Consume You Too.

You Play A Part In Every Aspect Of Your Life Going The Way You Want Or Not Going The Way That You Want. It Has Very Little To Do With Other People.

I Want To Be The Person That Is The First Person There And The Last Person To Leave. That's Who I Want To Be, Because I Think The Road To Success Is Through Commitment, And Through The Strength To Drive Through That Commitment When It Gets Hard. And It Is Going To Get Hard And You're Going To Want To Quit Sometimes, But It'll Be Colored By Who You Are, And More By Who You Want To Be.

I Wake Up Every Morning Believing Today Is Going To Be Better Than Yesterday.

There’s Nothing You’ve Ever Been Successful At That You Didn’t Work On Every Day.

I First Wanted To Be A Comedian When I Was Six Or Seven And My Dad Showed Me Laurel And Hardy's "perfect Day" On Tv.

Because I Know That Hope And Fear Are Connected, I Put My Mask Of Hope On.

Hopes And Fears

When I Was Growing Up, I Installed Refrigerators In Supermarkets. My Father Was An Electrical Engineer.

You Might Have More Talent Than Me, You Might Be Smarter Than Me, You Might Be Sexier Than Me, You Might Be All Of Those Things You Got It On Me In Nine Categories. But If We Get On The Treadmill Together, There Are Two Things: You're Getting Off First, Or I'm Going To Die. It's Really That Simple, Right?

As A Child, I Watched 'dallas' And That Was My Vision For My Life For As Long As I Could Remember.

On Learning To Swim: I'm Too Big To Have Some Woman Hold My Stomach And Say 'now Kick Your Feet.'

The Bible Talks About Your Spirit Being Immortal, That You Were Created For Existence Beyond Your Physical Body. Well, That's No Different From Scientology! I Don't Think That Because The Word Someone Uses For Spirit Is Thetan That The Definition Becomes Any Different.

Being Realistic Is The Most Commonly Travelled Road To Mediocracy

Before 2010, I Had A Vision. I Saw A Family In My Mind That I Wanted To Have. And I Was Pushing And Driving Hard For My Picture, And Then I Realized Everyone Has Their Own Journey. I Have To Support What They Want To Do. I Have To Support The Vision That They Have For Themselves, Not My Vision. That Was Excruciating For Me.

The Only Man You Will Ever Get Is Some Fool Named Grady Who Falls Asleep In His Soup.

Our Whole Dream For Our Home Was For It To Be An Artist's Haven. So There Are Paint Supplies; There's A Piano With A Microphone And A Recorder Right There To Capture Things Right In The Second. There's Editing Equipment. There Are Cameras. I Think The Only Thing In Our House That People Would Be Surprised By Is The Efficiency.

Human Beings Are Not Creatures Of Logic; We Are Creatures Of Emotion. And We Do Not Care What's True. We Care How It Feels.

If You're Not Willing To Work Hard, Let Someone Else Do It. I'd Rather Be With Someone Who Does A Horrible Job, But Gives 110% Than With Someone Who Does A Good Job And Gives 60%.

I Know Who I Am, I Know What I Believe, That's All I Need To Know. From There, You Do What You Need To Do.

It's Better To Be Prepared Than To Get Ready.

The Greatest Experience I've Ever Had In A Movie Theater Was Watching "star Wars." It Shaped How I Look At The World. My Imagination Was So Small Before I Went In That Theater And There Was An Explosion In My Head. I Just Couldn't Figure Out How Someone Came Up With It.

Just Because The Kid's Cute, Doesn't Mean You're Not The Father.

I'd Rather Live My Life Knowing That I'm Not Perfect Than Spend My Whole Life Pretending To Be.

Something Hurts, Lean In. You Just Lean Into That Point Until It Loses Its Power Over You. There's A Certain Amount Of Suffering That You Have To Be Willing To Sustain If You Want To Have A Good Life. And The Real Trick Is To Be Able To Sustain It With Your Heart Open And Still Be Loving.

I Don't Want To Be An Icon. I Want To Be An Idea. I Want To Represent Possibilities.

I Want To Take Care Of People. I Want To Help People. The Maximum Joy That I Have Is When I Can Create Something That Makes Someone Else's Life Lighter, Brighter, Or Better.

The First Step Is You Have To Say That You Can.

I’m A Student Of Patterns. At Heart, I’m A Physicist. I Look At Everything In My Life As Trying To Find The Single Equation, The Theory Of Everything.

When You Connect To A Primal Idea - Life, Death, Hunger, Hope, Fear - Any Of Those Primal Ideas Are Going To Translate, And I Think That's The Thing That I've Always Been Attracted To In My Work.

So If You Stay Ready, You Ain't Gotta Get Ready, And That Is How I Run My Life.

I'm Profoundly Changed. There's A Bittersweet Emotion That I Feel From Playing This Role. . . . I Want The World To Be Different Because I Was Here. However Lofty Or Crazy Or Delusional That May Sound, I Want People's Lives To Be Better Because I Was Here.

Famous Inspirational

Fear Is Not Real. The Only Place That Fear Can Exist Is In Our Thoughts Of The Future. It Is A Product Of Our Imagination, Causing Us To Fear Things That Do Not At Present And May Not Ever Exist. That Is Near Insanity. Do Not Misunderstand Me Danger Is Very Real But Fear Is A Choice.

Never Underestimate The Pain Of A Person, Because In All Honesty, Everyone Is Struggling. Some People Are Better At Hiding It Than Others.

The Things That Have Been Most Valuable To Me I Did Not Learn In School.

The Execs Don't Care What Color You Are. They Care About How Much Money You Make. Hollywood Is Not Really Black Or White. It's Green.

The Road To Success Is Through Commitment.

Road To Success

Sometimes You Have To Forget What's Gone, Appreciate What Still Remains, And Look Forward To What's Coming Next.

The Things That Have Been Most Valuable To Me I Did Not Learn In School. Traditional Education Is Based On Facts And Figures And Passing Tests - Not On A Comprehension Of The Material And Its Application To Your Life.

To Me, It's Science Fiction For Me To Do The Things I've Been Blessed To Do In This Industry.

Science Fiction

The Separation Of Talent And Skill Is One Of The Largest Misconceptions In Modern Society. Talent Is Something You Born With, But Skill Can Only Be Attained Through Hours And Hours Of Hard Work Perfecting Your Talent As A Craft. Which Is Why Talent Will Fail You Without Skill.

Don’t Compare Yourself To Others. That’s When You Start To Lose Confidence In Yourself.

Confidence In Yourself

There Are So Many People Who Have Lived And Died Before You. You Will Never Have A New Problem; You're Not Going To Ever Have A New Problem. Somebody Wrote The Answer Down In A Book Somewhere.

Life Is...the Moments That Take Your Breath Away.

Inspiring Movie

For Me, The Greater Purpose Of The Story Is Just To Illuminate Some Pattern Of Human Truth.

I Want To Represent The Idea That You Really Can Make What You Want I Believe I Can Create Whatever I Want To Create.

I Know How To Learn Anything I Want To Learn. I Absolutely Know That I Could Learn How To Fly The Space Shuttle Because Someone Else Knows How To Fly It, And They Put It In A Book. Give Me The Book, And I Do Not Need Somebody To Stand Up In Front Of The Class.

When You Create Art, The World Has To Wait.

You Have To Make Every Group You Come In Contact With Better.

I Read A Bruce Lee Quote That Shifted How I'm Trying To Live My Life Right Now. He Said, "some Targets Are Only Meant To Be Aimed At." Right? And I Took That To Mean A Shift For Myself From Goal Orientation To Path Orientation.

I've Never Really Viewed Myself As Particularly Talented. I've Viewed Myself As Slightly Above Average In Talent. And Where I Excel Is Ridiculous, Sickening, Work Ethic. You Know, While The Other Guy's Sleeping? I'm Working. While The Other Guy's Eatin'? I'm Working. While The Other Guy's Making Love, I Mean, I'm Making Love, Too. But I'm Working Really Hard At It.

Your Life Will Become Better By Making Other Lives Better.

Wasting Your Time

Personality Types

I Was Trying So Hard. I Would Memorize The Entire Script, Then I'd Be Lipping Everybody's Lines While They Were Talking. When I Watch Those Episodes, It's Disgusting. My Performances Were Horrible.

Probably Means There's A Good Chance. Possibly Means We Might Or We Might Not.

Never Lie To People, Because The People You Are Able To Lie To, Are The People Who Trust You.

I Consider Myself An Alchemist. An Alchemist Is Basically A Mystical Chemist, Right? And One Of The Great Feats That Alchemists Used To Do Is They Would Take Lead - Just Take A Chunk Of Lead - And They Could Turn Lead Into Gold.

The Best Feeling In The World Is Knowing That You Actually Mean Something To Someone.

I Have A Great Time With My Life, And I Wanna Share It.

I So Connected To Symbolically Being Able To Turn Lead Into Gold. My Grandmother Used To Say, "life Give You A Lemon, You Go Ahead And Make Lemonade." To Me, That's Alchemy.

Here I Stand Before You - Brown. Color Of The Mountains Colossal As The Earth Wrapped So Deliciously Within My Own Joy And Misery Feathers Of My Wings Paralyzed By The Distance Of My Mind Here I Stand Before You, The Color Of The Night Frozen By The Potential Of Me.

I Had A Hit Single On The Radio For 30 Days Before I Graduated From High School.

Whatever You Have Is Gonna Die And You Are Gonna Have To Rebirth Something New. You Have To Be Willing To Ride The Waves.

There's A Certain Delusional Quality That All Successful People Have To Have. You Have To Believe That Something Different Than What Has Happened For The Last 50 Million Years Of History - You Have To Believe That Something Different Can Happen.

If You Stay Ready, You Don't Have To Get Ready.

I Work From Almost A Dangerous Place In My Mind Sometimes.

If You Look At Somebody Like 50 Cent, Ain't Nobody Telling 50 What To Do And How To Do What He Does. He Has A Vision Of Who He Wants To Be, And He Instructs Everybody Along Those Lines.

I'm Not Afraid To Die On A Treadmill.

I've Always Been The Goofy Kid. Growing Up, I Always Enjoyed The Comedic Aspect Of Relating To Women. Even On Camera, It Was Always The Funny Take On It.

Make A Choice Of What You Want, Who You Want To Be And How You're Going To Do It. The Universe Will Get Out Of Your Way.

You Can't Break Poor People Mentality. Once You Grow Up Poor, You Don't Take Anything For Granted. It Can Have The Negative Side Also Because You Can Never Truly Be Relaxed.

Sitting In The Movie Theater Watching "star Wars," I've Never Had An Experience With Any Form Of Entertainment That Was Like That. It Was Almost Spiritual. I Couldn't Believe That Someone's Mind Created That. And, Right, It Felt Like George Lucas Had A Piano That Was Playing My Emotions, And He Could Go Ahead And Do Whatever He Wanted And Make Me Lean Forward If He Wanted, Or He Could Make Me Go Oh, Or He Could Make Me Hide My Face.

Being Realistic Is The Most Commonly Traveled Road To Mediocrity. Why Would You Be Realistic? What's The Point Of Being Realistic? I'm Going To Do It. It's Done. It's Already Done. The Second I Decide It's Done, It's Already Done.

My God, My Higher Power. It's Mine And Mine Alone. I Create My Connection And I Decide How My Connection Is Going To Be.

So To Really Be Able To Dive Into What Does It Mean To Be Broken By An Experience, And I Developed It Just Through Research And Talking And Understanding The Truth Of What It Means To Lose Everything.

When You Find Things That Are Tried And True For Millennia, You Can Bet That It's Going To Happen Tomorrow.

If You Want Somethin', Go Get It. Period.

I Want The World To Be Better Because I Was Here. I Want My Life, I Want My Work, My Family, I Want It To Mean Something And If You Are Not Making Someone Else's Life Better Then You Are Wasting Your Time.

Fear Is Not Real. The Only Place That Fear Can Exist Is In Our Thoughts Of The Future. It Is A Product Of Our Imagination, Causing Us To Fear Things That Do Not At Present And May Not Ever Exist. That Is Near Insanity Kitai. Do Not Misunderstand Me, Danger Is Very Real, But Fear Is A Choice.

I'm Starting To Be A Lot More Comfortable With Allowing People To Decide For Themselves And Almost Creating A Situation That Forces People To Decide For Themselves Whether They Like It Or Don't Like It Or Agree With The Character Or Disagree With The Character.

If We Each Get On A Treadmill Right Now, One Of Two Things Is Going To Happen... Either You're Going To Get Off First Or I Am Going To Die. Period.

I'm Human Viagra. I'm Willagra. I'm A Sex Machine Now. I'm Raring To Go Every Second Of The Day. My Wife's Loving It.

I Met My Father For The First Time When I Was 28 Years Old. I Made Up My Mind That When I Had Children, My Children Were Going To Know Who Their Father Was.

I Love Living. I Think That's Infectious, It's Something You Can't Fake.

You’ll Never Achieve 100 Percent If 99 Percent Is Okay.

I Love Creating Music And Television And Film. I Love The Hustle, I Love The Grind, I Love Working Sixteen- And Eighteen-hour Days And Waking Up At Four The Next Morning And Going To The Gym. I Love That.

I Do Not Have To Build A Perfect Wall Today. I Just Have To Lay A Perfect Brick.

I Love Being Black In America, And Especially Being Black In Hollywood.

I Am Inspired Beyond My Ability To Articulate... And Now I Know What And Who I Want To Be... A Soldier For Peace.

I Believe You Need To Be Educated About What You Want To Do In Life, But I Don't Believe You Actually Need College To Get You There.

There's A Forgiveness That Literary Audiences Will Give You That Film Audiences Don't Give You. It's The Two Hour Construct. You're In There And It Needs To Climax And Finish.

I Refuse To Accept Anything Less Than 100% Of What I Can Achieve.

Don't Ever Let Someone Tell You That You Can't Do Something. You Got A Dream, You Gotta Protect It. When People Can't Do Something Themselves, They Are Going To Tell You That You Can't Do It. You Want Something, Go Get It. Period.

Even A Blind Squirrel Finds An Acorn Now And Again.

Coming From Sitcom Television And Coming From Music You Burn Up Every Single Second. You Don't Leave Anything There. You Burn It Up And You Pass Out When You Walk Off Stage, So I Took That Concept Into Acting.

I Love You And I'm Here For You.

You Have To Create Something In A Way That Has Direction, That It Has Vision, And Then Your Partner Will Take It And Figure Out Whatever Their Expertise Is.

You Don’t Try To Build A Wall, You Don’t Set Out To Build A Wall. You Don’t Say ‘i’m Going To Build The Biggest, Baddest, Greatest Wall That’s Ever Been Built.’ You Don’t Start There… You Say ‘i’m Going To Lay This Brick As Perfectly As A Brick Can Be Laid.’ And You Do That Every Single Day And Soon You Have A Wall.

I Want To Represent Possibilities. I Want To Represent Magic, Right, That You're In A Universe, And Two Plus Two Equals Four.

Hurry Up And Write Your Number Down Before I Don't Want It No More.

It Feels Like God Visits Everywhere Else, But Lives In Africa.

I'm A Student Of World Religion, So To Me, It's Hugely Important To Have Knowledge And To Understand What People Are Doing.

World Religions

There Is Nothing Like Having To Change Your Physical Form To Put You In Contact With Every Weak Part Of Yourself, To Train Yourself In Discipline. Put Somebody On A Treadmill And I'll Tell You How Good They Are At Any Other Thing They Do In Life.

It's Been Rough For Me Trying To Find My Position In The Struggle And Where My Voice Is Needed And Helpful. You Know, I Grew Up In Philadelphia, And Philadelphia Has A Really Rough Police-brutality History. I Grew Up In A Neighborhood Where It Was Very Clear That The Police Were "them" And We Were "us".

If You're Always Ready, You Don't Have To Get Ready.

And Where I Excel Is Ridiculous, Sickening, Work Ethic. You Know, While The Other Guy's Sleeping? I'm Working.

I've Always Been A Jokester. The Things I Got In Trouble For, When I Was Little, Was Always About Making A Joke Or Setting Up A Prank Or Being Silly When I Should Be Paying Attention.

When You Look Around At The Six People That You Spend The Most Time With, That's Who You Are. I Think That In Making Those Decisions In Who You Are Going To Be Married To, Who Your Friends Are Going To Be, Those Are Really Huge, Critical, Life Decisions. Who Gets To Talk To You Everyday, Is Almost Like The Food That You Eat. It Is A Very Huge Critical Situation To Choose Who The People Are That You Are Spending Your Life With, Spending Your Time With And Who You Are Choosing To Give Your Love And Everything To.

Tommy Lee Jones Is Hilarious. I Would Say, If You Look At The Body Of His Work, The Character He Is Most Like Is The One In 'the Fugitive.' That's How He Talks And Jokes. That Is The Type Of Energy He Has.

There's So Much Negative Imagery Of Black Fatherhood. I've Got Tons Of Friends That Are Doing The Right Thing By Their Kids, And Doing The Right Thing As A Father - And How Come That's Not As Newsworthy?

I Want To Represent Possibilities.

One Of My Teachers Used To Call Me Prince, Because I Always Had A Way Of Charming Myself In And Out Of Different Situations.

The Greatest Dreams Are Always Unrealistic.

I Grew Up In The Church, Resurrection Baptist Church In Philadelphia, And My Grandmother Was That Grandmother At The Church, The One Always At The Church, Always Putting On The Events. It Was Deeply Instilled In Me That Every Action, Everything I Create, Everything I Say And Do In The World Is Inexorably Bound To The Lives Of Everybody I Come In Contact With - And It's My Responsibility To Put Things Into The World That Have A Positive Influence On Humanity.

I Would Have Absolutely Messed Up 'the Matrix'.

Greatness Lives On The Edge Of Destruction

Life On The Edge

I Want The World To Be Better Because I Was Here.

When I Was Young, And I'd Get A's, I'd Get This Good Feeling Of All The Things That I Could Be. And Then I'd Never Became Any Of Them.

I Truly Believe That I Can Be President Of The Us If I Really Want To.

You Can Cry, Ain't No Shame In It.

I Look At Bill Clinton, The Way I Look At Bill Gates. As Long As My Microsoft Stock Is Going Up, I Don't Care What Bill Gates Does In The Privacy Of His Own Home.

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