I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing.

I think I'd be a good pimp cuz I'd never beat my ho's.

In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it.

Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.

To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.

I love the smell of a woman's armpit when she's not wearing deodorant.

I liked being in the spotlight.

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

There are 6 billion people in the world. It's hard to find the one person who's right for you.

I was raised right. I dig who I am.

I grew up on the Roger Moore and Sean Connery Bond movies, so the DNA of my spies is extremely ridiculous and goofy.

Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.

I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.

Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

Aries in his many fits knows no favorites.

Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.

There is a mistaken idea, ancient but still with us, that an overdose of anything from fornication to hot chocolate will teach restraint by the very results of its abuse.

Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation.

It's a small world, but we all run in big circles.

Even when I was little, people would always ask me if I wanted to be a movie star, and I would always say, "No, I just want to be an actor."