Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.

I provide a little comic relief.

You take the quote from Sam Jackson about how he'll never work with a rapper, and I can understand where he's coming from because he says rappers can't act.

Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.

Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot a helicopter out of the sky. That's the only fight I'm in.

Set your heights more than what you see around you, see beyond.

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it.

You say you're a comedian, you always have to be on guard.

It takes all sorts to make a world - saints as well as soldiers.

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

Men will not save women for nothing, but themselves. Women have to save themselves.

It is so beautiful but home is home, and home is best.

Doubt is not a pleasant state but certainty is a ridiculous one.

How generous the universe could be, when he wanted to be!

I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.

Some people think Taoism means not doing anything, just going on with your life. That has little or nothing to do with Taoism.

In trying times, I like to remember that you have to keep walking because you can't see what is around the corner.

I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.

I think we love who we love and there’s not a damn thing that can be done about it.

I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.