If it wasn't for my drama teacher, I wouldn't be here right now.

I was the Pink Pansy or whatever, wearing this crazy thing.

Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something funny with my head or face or something.

I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.

Words have power. Speak positively and positive things will happen to you. Speak negatively and negative things will happen to you. Choose positive words.

Faith is what I live by in everything that I do. I strive to give glory to God in every aspect of my life, even my films.

Today, I command my days by confessing that every minute will be blessed and perfect. My confession then has no other choice but to confer blessings upon my life.

Being a role model, you just got to watch what you do.

After that I got an agent and went on like a million auditions. You win some, you lose some.

Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.

The only thing wrong with trying to please everyone is that there's always at least one person who will remain unhappy. You.

But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and manufactures gradually brought about.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

The inner aspects of reincarnation have to do with where you put your mind. The more expansive state of mind you enter into, the less suffering there is.

We must look at alternatives objectively, and not try to fit the future into our present social mould.

I was uncomfortable with smoking too much because a lot of young kids watch and I didn't want to make that cool.

[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places.

You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you

It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.