I grew up in Harlem in New York, very rough, urban environment, and so what I found is that, if I can have kids travel to different places, countries, areas, it can expand their minds.

Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive.

The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.

You don't have to make, you know, $3 Million dollars a movie, or $20 Million dollars a movie, but if you make a living doing what you love doing, then that's success to me.

I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

Are you intimidated by me? Because if you're intimidated by me, that's something you'll have to deal with.

I saw how, when my brother smoked reefer, it made my mother cry. He was 16 at the time. And I saw that she broke down and cried. I never wanted to hurt my mother, so I kept away from drugs.

I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.

For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.

I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.

I don't give Hollywood the power to limit me. Only God can limit me.

I wanted to play with death, like a child with a new toy, I wanted to push all the buttons and see what would happen.

You touch me again, you arrogant Ardenine swine, and I swear on the blood of Hanalea the warrior, I will geld you. Do you understand?

There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life.

User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.

If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.

What if compassion is also profitable? What if compassion is also good for business?

Instill respect for teachers.

I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western.

Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.

The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.