Now that I've established myself in a drama, I'm plugging away, trying to get the attention of people who do the independent movies and the features.

Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.

I hosted Soul train but I listen to everything.

It's okay to put your heart on your sleeve. Okay to have that softer side - the softer side in the sense of being able to listen, to deal with fear, to not always be so dominant.

We never get enough of falling in love and believing in love.

I'm not a machine. I get really motivated, then I fall off the wagon and want to eat Chinese food and sit on my couch and gain five or 10 pounds!

I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor.

I admire Brad Pitt, honestly, just because of how he started and the obstacles he had to overcome to have the career that he's had.

Each morning needs to start with a good sweat. I'm either working out at home or on set, depending on my call time.

After eight years on 'Young and the Restless' and eight years on 'Criminal Minds,' I'm ready for that next phase of my career.

I look at leading men because that's ultimately what I'm aspiring to do. But I also look at character actors and people that I'm just in awe by, just because I can relate to it.

When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.

Chocolate is an excellent flavor for ice cream but both unreasonable and disconcerting in chewing gum.

If people were kinder, the world might cease weeping.

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Little brothers ring fingers get cut up to show mothers they really got em.

I was a chubby boy. My pants used to wear out in the middle, and it was because my legs used to rub together. I wasn't obese, just chunky.

Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.

The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.

It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.