Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.

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.

When you make a deal with the Devil, it can be Hell.

Every successful venture is based on an unoriginal idea, beautifully executed.

I gave (pitcher) Mike Cuellar more chances than I gave my first wife.

Love--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars.

I dont know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. Its more than talent and beauty. Maybe its the audience seeing itself in you.

Be reckless enough to gamble all or nothing to follow your dreams

Education is the ability to meet life's situations.

Every girl deserves a guy who'll prove to her that not all guys are the same, a guy who'll love her just the way she is.

In a world of wolves one should go armed, and one of the most powerful defensive weapons within the reach of Negroes is the practice of race first in all parts of the world.

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.