I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.

I think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It's not as much about them loving you - it's about you needing to love people.

I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so I am somewhat well-versed in African Studies.

When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe.

The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!

I wasn't a comic book geek as a kid. I read some, but it was just like, "Oh, I have this comic book here." It wasn't like I was collecting them.

There's nothing more stressful than your stomach growling.

I might have had too many friends in my twenties. I probably said yes too much, and then I had to learn how to say no. How to get away in order to work on stuff.

I just think people have been very gracious and welcoming me on set, and even off set.

Guys are natural problem solvers - they like to have strategies.

I just didn't want to be a loser anymore...-Mitsuko Souma

I'm pretty, but I'm not beautiful. I sin, but I'm not the devil. I'm good, but I'm not an angel.

No matter was the professional talkers tell you, I never met a black boy who wanted to fail.

*You only get one chance to make a first impression.* Ah, whatever!!! Who said you get three chances to make the second impression?!!

A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together.

When man can "wish away worrying," every desire will be instantly fulfilled.

Start out by making 100 users really happy, rather than a lot more users only a little happy.

As any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything.

Tarzan is direct; he doesn't ask Jane if they might have a meaningful relationship or if they can get together for lunch sometime.

You look back and you always think you can probably do something better.