I love fishing and surfing, and I work out every day.

When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.

Nothing beats a great smile.

When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.

That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do.

My philosophy is whatever you do, you've got to invest in yourself. If you don't, there are a lot of people out there who will get the job because they're more prepared than you.

I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think in essence what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.

I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting "Heaven" it was truly guerrilla film-making.

I would think, as an actor, it's just much more fun to be the bad guy.

I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.

When you pick up a script and you can't stop reading it because it's a real page-turner, that's a good sign.

I believe there are only three businesses: my business, other people's business, and God's business.

Today is Your Day to Dance Lightly with Life. It Really Is.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

We have no leadership. And honestly, that starts with Secretary Hillary Clinton.

When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.

Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice.

As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.

That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.

The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to a bookstore to find what you weren't looking for.

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.