I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist.

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.

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.

I was discovered on the Sony lot through an audition by Denzel Washington.

Prayer is our lifeline to God.

Conflict can be healthy within a collaborative group, as long as everyone sticks to the issues and things don't get personal.

I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children.

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool.

I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

It's amazing how dumb people can impress you with how much stupider they can be when they really assert themselves.

The person who is to succeed will never let his mind dwell on past mistakes. He will forgive the past in his life and in the lives of other people. If he makes a mistake he will at once forgive it.

Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)

She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.