I didn't pursue acting to become famous. I was actually just trying to make a living.

I like to eat sweets. When I go to a restaurant, I'll read the dessert menu before I even look at the entrees.

One thing I love about making an ensemble film is that you can have ten people come away from it with ten different messages.

Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing.

It's not always about the money.

I'm kind of a private person, and sometimes it's like pulling teeth to get me to talk.

I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die.

When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.

I'm just happy to be working consistently.

I've been in a situation where I was after the money.

Sometimes the stereotypes that a lot of people have are of black men in jail or who don't take care of their kids, so I think it's always important to have that.

For an adventurous life, seek not security. Dance with uncertainty to create magnificence and beauty.

Change back to your ugly self before I change your face for you, ” Logan said, Silver Frost.

If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.

See, Josh, that's what you do when someone slaps you in the face. So the next time it happens to you, try to retaliate.

I can't legislate a song into being, it just will not happen for me.

what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.

Brian Auger is a superb technician on his instrument, but he also plays with feeling that is a rarity. I am looking forward in recording with him in the near future.

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

Bring into reality the possibility of the improbable by acquiring a positive mental attitude. Say to yourself, as Henry Ford said to his engineers, "Keep working!"