I don't like perpetuating the stereotype of black males being drug dealers, and criminals.

I don't see myself as extremely handsome. I just figure I can charm you into liking me.

You can put a cat in an oven, but that don't make it a biscuit.

I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.

I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!'

We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.

My sign is Leo. A Leo has to walk with pride. When he takes a step, he has to put his foot down. You walk into a room and you want people to know your presence, without you doing anything.

You give Frost a message from me. You tell him it's open season on all suckheads.

I have a whole other side that has yet to be seen on screen.

The first time I jumped from a plane, I screamed like a woman. I was two miles up and you could hear me clear as day. Now I love it.

Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.

We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.

Could you imagine a windstorm without the rustling of the leaves? You are made of the same stuff as the leaves–and the wind. You are meant to be rustled and sung.

It's kind of hard to win most elections on anti-family, immorality, and Satan-worship.

I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

If an animal has any rights at all, it's got the right not to be eaten.

When we begin to believe that there is greater joy in working with and for others, rather than just for ourselves, then our society will truly become a place of celebration.

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.

When I hire actors I believe in their abilities.

Problem talk creates problems, Solution talk creates solutions.