St. Justin Quotes

I love the art house, and when I say the art house, I don't just mean little, independent movies but movies that really aim to be about something and say something and I love those movies.

It is frustrating having to walk through America having to bob and weave people's impressions of me because they see a tall, black guy walking down the street. That is frustrating.

I love when scenes are intentionally and meticulously planned so we feel like this is a handcrafted scene that only works in this moment and this movie, and that's the way I approach my films.

Racism is wrong, racism is very dangerous.

If the characters [in a movie] aren't real, if their lives aren't realistic, if you call bullshit at any point in their journey, then the rest of it is invalid.

After you eat Grandma's cookies, everything in life gets better.

I've been making music since I was damn near born. For me to be a producer and be on my sixteenth year making music is a blessing.

My family is taken care of, I'm taken care of and that's all that matters to me.

Tony [Touch] is like my big brother. He's somebody that I grew up listening to. I've had the fortune of befriending a lot of my idols in a positive way. Tony is one of them.

We've done several concerts to promote literacy.. anywhere from children in Africa to children in St. George. It's definitely something that we have always been supportive of.

However bad your life appears, things could be far, far worse

Secrets have a way of eating away at us from the inside

I've never been shocked by anything on television, except the news.

There was a moment, late into the season, where I was noticing I was darkening a little bit at night. I was like, 'It will be nice when the show is over for the season. I need a vacation.'

I had such a distaste for '70s clothing. So, the '90s were a rough period for me because I got made fun of for wearing what they used to call "pegged pants." Now they call them "skinny jeans."

D.C. is a hard city to grow up in. I couldn't find my footing there. Also, I got a late start academically, and I was dyslexic.

It's like, once you've seen Tom Hanks win the Golden Globes, the Oscars, you've seen his wife, what kind of car he drives, when you watch his movies, you can't fully get really lost in them.

In New York, you can bump into someone on the street and go to a thing, go get coffee real quick.

I've never been the guy who's like, 'I take it home with me.'

If I was roped into a seven-year TV contract I'd probably hang myself.

I hate when people make a really good product and then stop making it. I get annoyed.

I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that. But I wasn't doing well in any of the schools, so by ninth or tenth grade, I ended up going to a boarding school.

I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that.

I've always liked boots. I always think it's better to wear a boot, not a shoe.

I always try to do the most interesting, fun thing for me.

I feel more comfortable writing firmly comedic or slightly comedic stuff.

In the '90s, there was a big bell-bottom craze. Everyone was wearing grungy bell-bottoms. It was so repugnant to me.

Being a fan of comedy, it's so unique, in their own voice. I was really stoked to be able to participate. They're so great at just coming up with stuff on the fly and making stuff funny.

When you hear about people in the '50s getting married at 20, you're like, What were they thinking? My grandparents were together for over 50 years.

You have a lot of time on these tours. As Alice Cooper said, you can either drink all day or golf.

It's nice to marry your best friend. It suits me.

I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

I will always come with something that's aesthetically pleasing.

I'm completely removed from any hype that comes my way.

I think it's the first idea I ever got about doing something on my own, because it was the first time I have ever really felt the confidence to do it.

The Grammys used me for ratings. And they were up 18 percent!

I think the first half of my 20s I felt I had to achieve, achieve, achieve. A lot of men do this. I'm looking around now and I'm like, Where am I running?

I know what it takes to put on a good show for the fans.

If entertainment years were dog years, man, Id be like Gandhi. Id be like 250 years old.

I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.

I used to think I actually was Batman.

England is the first country that I've had a no. 1 album in, so it is now officially my home away from home.

I have OCD mixed with ADD, you try living with that. Its complicated.

As an actor, it's your job to find the way to play a character. I think you can latch on to some things that might have happened.

Obviously, with creating music you are solely responsible for the creation of it.

My idol when I was growing up was Michael Jordan the basketball player because of his work ethic rather than his talent and because of what he went through to be as good as he was.

I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.

We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed.

I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old.

I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across.