It's just a matter of me opening up the page and whatever is written on the page, that's what I'm here to do.

I provide a little comic relief.

You take the quote from Sam Jackson about how he'll never work with a rapper, and I can understand where he's coming from because he says rappers can't act.

Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.

Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot a helicopter out of the sky. That's the only fight I'm in.

Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.

Set your heights more than what you see around you, see beyond.

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it.

You say you're a comedian, you always have to be on guard.

It takes all sorts to make a world - saints as well as soldiers.

To have hope is to be happy.

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.

But that's not what an actor does. An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a computer.

I used slam dunking as a tool for intimidation.

Music chooses her musicians.

Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

Anybody that's old and closed-minded does not like Rick James... They don't like the fact that I'm free and I'm wide open.

A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.