Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance.

I get to be in movies where it's mostly dialogue, and I want to be in something, that for me, feels like kickboxing.

Denzel's quality, I think, is his faith. You have all the action in your head and you have to believe in it and just do it. That's what he does and that's what he taught me to do.

He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action.

The magic isn't in getting married, it's in staying married.

Hollywood is a place where if you abide by the rules and laws, you can get depressed. That's why faith and spirituality is a higher law.

I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist.

As a parent my greatest fear is always anything that endangers my children.

I think many times in relationships as it escalates to marriage, what it takes to breed a marriage, is the same thing that it takes to breed a career.

I loved B.I.G., but not like I liked Tupac, because he was an actor, so I related to him.

I was discovered on the Sony lot through an audition by Denzel Washington.

Since I spend such a long time making each book, I only choose books that I'm really interested in and that I really love.

You don't have to feel bad to act kindly. Love doesn't stand by, it moves with the speed of clarity.

I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.

It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more.

Kids like my act because I'm wearing nose glasses. Adults like my act because there's a guy who thinks putting on nose glasses is funny.

Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.

The true man breathes with his heels.