Acting careers dont come out fully formed - not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all.

I want to see more people of different backgrounds being cast in films. I want to see people from inner cities being discovered, because that's where you find some really brilliant artists.

I remember my manager telling me, 'Be myself, be humble, keep rooted, keep God first'. Those words were very helpful.

It's amazing that people still feel, 'Oh my gosh, it's a black guy.' We've been here for a long time; let's get used to it. Let's get used to other cultures.

My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.

Let's get used to other cultures. Portray the world for what it is and you will find truth.

Portray the world for what it is, and you will find truth.

I'm a London fanatic. That's my city. I love being from there, you don't appreciate it until you go out.

Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, when you're dealing with reality, I feel like films should discover the part that is happy.

Not everybody has that mentality and that's fine, but once Robert Redford leaves this earth - later rather than sooner - his legacy will go on.

I like my women very green; you know, eco-friendly.

I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they’re always being perverty when I’m around.

The turkeys I eat are raised on farms. They're different. They've signed on the dotted line.

One cat just leads to another."[Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]

She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.

One has to commit their life to music and not expect to get famous or rich doing it.

I have tons of jokes with moments in them over the years in stand-up that don't get a laugh but I love them so they stay.

That defining moment at my friend's house, when his uncle looks in my eye and reads me the word of God, I have an awakening.

You either get it or you don't. Become one of those who get it.

The true gospelstands before the throne of God declaring, 'Jesus did it all.'

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.