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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I had a tumor. But it was great.

We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.

I promised that from now on I would write only for the Lord.

One definition of maturity is learning to delay pleasure.

Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.

We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.

H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

There's not a comedy actor who doesn't want a chance to do drama, and vice versa. As actors, we're always looking to be pushed and to do the other side of the coin.

I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it's the same.

You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.