Hollywood is a place where if you abide by the rules and laws, you can get depressed. That's why faith and spirituality is a higher law.

I get to be in movies where it's mostly dialogue, and I want to be in something, that for me, feels like kickboxing.

Denzel's quality, I think, is his faith. You have all the action in your head and you have to believe in it and just do it. That's what he does and that's what he taught me to do.

He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action.

Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance.

The magic isn't in getting married, it's in staying married.

I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist.

As a parent my greatest fear is always anything that endangers my children.

I think many times in relationships as it escalates to marriage, what it takes to breed a marriage, is the same thing that it takes to breed a career.

I loved B.I.G., but not like I liked Tupac, because he was an actor, so I related to him.

I was discovered on the Sony lot through an audition by Denzel Washington.

Education transforms and transcends the human mind toward perfection.

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?

Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help

We have deficits with everybody. Who do we have a positive with?

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

There are only two stimulants to ones best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.

Que sçais-je?" (What do I know?)

For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard - despite decreasing resources - cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.