I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.

I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean?

NO ONE is immune to the trials and tribulations of life.

Life- ride it until the wheels fall off.

You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say, 'Wow, they made a difference in some kind of way.'

I just try to get along with people and show the love that I would like to be shown to me.

Everybody has a Big Momma: the mother or the grandmother who tells it like it is, keeps it real with them, isn't afraid to tell you the truth about yourself.

For me, this was all or nothing. I left no room for anything else. That goal was just for my own push, my own self-esteem. The fear of not being a success in my life made me push even harder.

I don't really judge. To each his own. You like what you like.

You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.

I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.

When someone tells you a piece of their life, they’re giving you a gift, not granting you your due.

Everyone was searching for a formula for survival... and the only formula that worked was no formula. Instinct ... that's all you had to go on.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.

I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.

They need a role model. They need a star!

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Christians claim that life has no meaning if you stop pretending to know things you don't know, though they phrase it more tersely as life has no meaning without faith.

I have often regretted having spoken, never having kept silent.

Getting life insurance is like making a bet you can't win. If you live, you don't get the money. If you die, you don't get to enjoy the money.