Being just an actor, sometimes people are like, "Hey, man, we don't wanna see you no more, in front of the camera," and I don't want that.

If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we're living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it.

And perfect happiness? Man, that's a...the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.

I'm a southern gentleman.

Black people are the most talented people in the world.

Doc Rivers been hoarse since birth

We can't retract the decisions we've made, we can only affect the decisions we're going to make from here.

You are what you repeatedly do when things get hard.

I want to thank my daughter, who told me, 'If you don't win, Dad, you're still good,' ... who taught me how to act.

(I get to) kill all the white people... How great is that?

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

Your spirit is strong enough to survive any situation.

You'll may not have all the things you'll want in the world, but the true love that you'll have for each other should be enough for you two to be thankful in life still.

There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven, that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

On the spectrum of successful politicians, I'm not introverted the way some have been.

The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the most quixotic figure in all rowing.

All truth is very ordinary. It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary.

If you want to be a warrior, you have to train.

Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.

Originality is not doing something no one else has ever done, but doing what has been done countless times with new life, new breath.

Privacy is not negotiable.