Everybody knows when you've got a role in a Spike Lee movie, you're gonna blow up. But I happen to be the only person who's had the lead in the two Spike Lee movies nobody saw.

You never see girls running after engineers.

If I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I'm going to do that.

I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.

I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening to people and how awful their lives are.

If you want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a good movie. If you don't want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a 'Twilight' movie.

Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.

I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.

Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.

If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place.

People don't come to Marvel movies for personal life subplots, no.

In life, never talk about problems. Talk about solutions.

Courage is feeling justly afraid and yet still doing what is right.

Give up your dreams

Every generation has found [the Bible’s] message indispensable, and its influence on individuals and society over the centuries has been enormous.

I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.

'Concentrate on measuring performance and winning will take care of itself'. That is a brilliant excuse for coming second.

I hope I will be remembered as a good father and a fair employer. And a good host, of course!

Use well thy freedom.