No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.

I don't see myself as extremely handsome. I just figure I can charm you into liking me.

You can put a cat in an oven, but that don't make it a biscuit.

I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.

I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!'

We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.

My sign is Leo. A Leo has to walk with pride. When he takes a step, he has to put his foot down. You walk into a room and you want people to know your presence, without you doing anything.

You give Frost a message from me. You tell him it's open season on all suckheads.

I don't like perpetuating the stereotype of black males being drug dealers, and criminals.

I have a whole other side that has yet to be seen on screen.

The first time I jumped from a plane, I screamed like a woman. I was two miles up and you could hear me clear as day. Now I love it.

Strong thoughts are accompanied by great emotions

It's an imperfect world, so you fit in perfectly.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.

and I try to draw the line but it ends up running down the middle of me most of the time.

Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.

Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.

I can remember years ago sitting on my bed and suddenly thinking, "I am God."

She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh.

I glanced, wide eyed, from Edward's grimace to Jacob's sneer.