I want viewers to relate to me on a different level, not just a sexual level.

I like to eat sweets. When I go to a restaurant, I'll read the dessert menu before I even look at the entrees.

One thing I love about making an ensemble film is that you can have ten people come away from it with ten different messages.

Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing.

It's not always about the money.

I'm kind of a private person, and sometimes it's like pulling teeth to get me to talk.

I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die.

When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.

I'm just happy to be working consistently.

I've been in a situation where I was after the money.

Sometimes the stereotypes that a lot of people have are of black men in jail or who don't take care of their kids, so I think it's always important to have that.

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.

Fellowship and interaction with people opens up God’s heart to us

Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about

I love being from a screwed up family. We have everything in my family: prescription drug abuse, mental illness, one of my uncles is a Mormon.

If thou be rich, strive to command thy money, lest it command thee.

Make peace with what is.

The availability of private insurance provides tremendous insulation for millions of individuals

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.

The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.