I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself, trust in your abilities and you're the author of your own destiny.

I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.

You don't want it to be a replica or an imitation. You want to create something fresh, original, very unique.

I just want to keep the diversity and the options open. In terms of what I'm looking for, I'd like to do a lead action role.

Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home. Akin is warrior or brave man. Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.

Personally, I love Toronto.

You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.

When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do.

The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.

As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience. I played a character on Oz and people still approach me in the streets today.

Also, I'd like to play an athlete again, while I'm still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole, because I play the trumpet and sing. I'd like to incorporate that into a character.

The heart that is constantly overflowing with gratitude will be safe from those attacks of resentfulness and gloom that bother so many persons.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

If you're genuinely candid and expressive then you're never wrong, even when you are wrong.

I don't think I've ever prayed in my entire life, never sat and had an imaginary chat with God.

The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness wasn't spending it helping people who needed it.

Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.

I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.

As I have said many times before, the speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light. And it is nothing else!

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.