Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.

I have never made a decision based on race and never will.

We all create our own reality by the choices we make.

The Academy Awards was an amazing night. I know I kind of lost my mind a little bit. I apologize for that. That night went so fast I can't remember what I said or what happened.

I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.

I'm an avid hockey fan and I've been playing for about 17 years, and somebody recently told me that the first organized hockey teams in Canada were all black. Telling those stories would be cool.

I've always been a sucker for attention.

What makes you think that what you know is any different from what I know? I had different teachers.

My wife and I have been together since 1986. I graduated in '86 and she graduated in '88. We began dating when she was 17. Actually she turned 18 when we started kissing and stuff.

Now, I have big-money offers on three movies, and I have director approval. That's kind of scary,' he says. 'No directors have been attached. That's a lot of pressure on me

I understand it all. I can write my own ticket for one or two movies. But if they're not the right ones, my ticket gets yanked. I understand that's how it works, and I'm okay with it.

Consciousness is eternal, and it is part of you.

The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

Time spent in prayer is never wasted.

I'd rather be a lamppost in Chicago than a millionaire in any other city.

Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

Kids are much more intuitive these days. Not that I'm crazy about what's on TV, but they know so much these days.

I know sometimes when I go to a convention or a film festival occasionally people bring me really valuable and really rare memorabilia that I have never seen before.

Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.

I would always love this fragile human girl, for the rest of my limitless existence.

People are made in such a way that even the holiest ones are liable to offend one another.