I rewind the TV every two minutes. If someone does something interesting, I have to see it over and over again.

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

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

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

O bed! O bed! Delicious bed! That heaven on earth to the weary head!

I think the Internet is a huge positive.

Etre un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux. To be useful has always seemed to me quite hideous.

I think if you put a smile on people's faces, they give that back to you.

Oh, how short are the days! How soon the night overtakes us!

She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her family's heritage, another to hear it from him.

I think where you play is important.

History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent.

Something that you can't play in your kitchen is rap. It is done in your neighbour's kitchen.

Let me not be weak and tell others how bleeding I am internally; how day by day it drips, and gathers, and congeals.