I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely.

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

No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...

History belongs to the intercessors - those who believe and pray the future into being.

To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things.

She lives like tomorrow isn't coming and yesterday never happened.

He reaches over and touches my necklace. "You still have it. That gives me faith." "Faith in what?""God, I suppose. No, I don't know. Survival.

Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.

Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.

I want people to think they can't die until they see me play.

You can play guitar in your canteen, you know, your hair might be longer, but there's a lot more to playing than travelling around universities and things.

Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.