Jamie Foxx Quotes

If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we're living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it.

And perfect happiness? Man, that's a...the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.

I'm a southern gentleman.

Black people are the most talented people in the world.

Doc Rivers been hoarse since birth

We can't retract the decisions we've made, we can only affect the decisions we're going to make from here.

You are what you repeatedly do when things get hard.

I want to thank my daughter, who told me, 'If you don't win, Dad, you're still good,' ... who taught me how to act.

(I get to) kill all the white people... How great is that?

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

It's like church over here. It's like church in here. First of all, give an honor to God and our Lord and Savior Barack Obama.

My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.

A woman's posterior is the key to my heart.

I wish I could take what I'm feeling right now and put it in the water system, and we would all love each other.

If you can, always be appreciative of the ebb and flow of the losses and the wins.

Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.

I had that upbringing. Of watching 'Bonanza,' watching 'Hee Haw,' which both black and white would watch. I rode horses. I did gun spinning as a kid. I do these things.

She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you.

We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

Every single thing in my life is built around race.

I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior.

My Grandmother would say, 'Make sure you look good. Make sure you speak well. Make sure you remain that Southern gentleman that I've taught you to be.'

I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

If I were an animal, I would be an eagle.

You have a responsibility to your work, to your choices. Once you get to a certain level of quality and commitment, you don't want to go back and make Booty Call 7.

I live young and I keep the weight off of me.

Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.

This whole thing called the internet and all this other kind of stuff is about to go crazy. It's all going to change. But, you know what's not going to change? The talented people.

I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it’s just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it’s stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.

Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery?

The most interesting thing about acting is when you go to the dark places, that's a lot of energy. When you go to the happiest places, it's also a lot of energy.

Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.

Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic.

We can't wave a magic wand and get rid of any of these people's problems, but what they want is they want to be heard.

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

Nobody wants to hear R&B. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.

Being just an actor, sometimes people are like, "Hey, man, we don't wanna see you no more, in front of the camera," and I don't want that.

In L.A. you can hide. I can hide at the beach, hide up in the hills. In Miami everybody is looking at you.

I am a comedian and you guys know whatever I say, I don't mean any of it.

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

Lil Wayne is a music god!!!!

You guys have so much energy. I threw a party in Toronto and there were, like, 4,000 people who couldn't get in.

I think girls have to play a little hard to get because we come with so much bravado.

What I've noticed is that when people win huge and they have those huge, huge successes, sometimes they forget about the actual acting of it, and sometimes it's hard to come down from their perch.

In black comedic culture, there's always been a thing about "Man, I ain't gotta wear a dress to be funny!" But I've done it.

All of us black comedians are trying to be mainstream, but you don't want to lose the edge.

I would say my grandmother would be like my personal god.

Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.