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.

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

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.

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.

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.

To you, I'm an atheist.To God, I'm the loyal opposition.

Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation resisted may become more, not less, fierce.

The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.

Racism is exclusion, that's why I make fun of everybody.

It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to spare us the pain of being aware of our imperfections.

In every storm there is a 'Peace! Be still' Christ will speak where prayer's call invites Him.

Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.

Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say "what kind of tea?"

Inside me there is a fat man dying to get out.

With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.