I don't think people come to television for spectacle. And I don't really have a lot of fun writing spectacle for television, I'll do that in features.

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

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.

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.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Wisdom often comes from those with the least to lose.

If keeping your word costs you the one thing you love the most, then what was it even worth keeping in the first place?

It is immoral not to tell.

You know later in life I was inspired to sing and that would've been Aretha, Chaka Khan, Mariah - the typical divas were the inspiration. I've always enjoyed all those singers.

Wisdom doesn't teach fools for long.

The boundaries became constrictive in what I was doing, and if my faith grew, it was because I pressed some of the boundaries in ways I hadn't felt comfortable or responsible doing that before.

By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.

Everything you see on screen is real. By doing what we do, there's naturally going to be a lot of grimacing. And whimpering.

America must be burned! America is no good at all.