I was going to be valedictorian in elementary school, but I got into too many fights, and they made me salutatorian. I was smart back in the day. Now I'm just an idiot.

Success is not a destination, but the road that you’re own.

I want to be remembered as a guy who's not going to change your life but who is going to change your mood. As a guy who made you smile and say, "I miss him. He was a lot of fun."

I want to be believable in anything I take on.

f you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong.

Let me tell you, Barack Obama is the most down dude in the world, but he's so smart so articulate, such an amazing speaker such a passionate man. He's humble.

I always feel that the best roles are written for white guys.

I sound like Jesse Jackson or Martin Luther King, but I honestly feel like the world is mature enough. And, for me, I just want to do good roles.

I want to do literally everything. I think I was gifted... I inherited one of the best comedy visionaries as a director.

I was 160lbs when I started and I went up to 195lbs. There were no steroids. But it was hard work, dedication, hitting the gym. You kind of see it.

I hate cooking. But I do make the candied yams every year at Thanksgiving. And they're awesome! You could definitely get diabetes and cavities from them, but they're delicious!

The thought of Annie being gone was too much to bear. I swear I heard gasps from the girls as Abby released the words of her passing to the screen.

When we worry about someone we send them a secret message – I don’t believe in you. When we worry about our life, we send ourselves a secret message – I don’t believe in me.

I cannot think who my residents hurt but how I can give them tools to remain on the right side of civilization.

It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a scream pierced the air'. . . . Good writing takes enormous concentration.

Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it.

I don't sleep much. It takes me a long time to fall asleep. I'm a bit of an insomniac but, when I fall asleep, I don't ever want to wake up.

See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.

No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.

Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.

Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.