I loved B.I.G., but not like I liked Tupac, because he was an actor, so I related to him.

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

Whatever you are dreaming of to create wait not for other people doing it for you.Give breath in your dreams, your creations.Become the Creator in your small or greater dreams!

Freedom is not an individual effort.Yours comes only when you grant others theirs

And yet, protest it if we will, Some corner of the mind retainsThe medieval man, who stillKeeps watch upon those starry skeinsAnd drives us out of doors at nightTo gaze at anagrams of light.

All people have similar desires and needs. They only pursue them in different ways.

The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

It is immoral not to tell.

Allah made joining and connecting with the kinship and cognation, the cause of lengthening of life.

I am fearless when I think I'm alone.

The artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he tells his audience, at the risk of their displeasure, the secrets of their own hearts