Nobody gets killed when they're happy. It always starts with an argument, or a debt.

Everything good that's ever happened to me came out of helping others.

In order to make a great, epic movie, you have to have the four Bs - babes, bullets, blood and blades.

When people come at me they can't win, they think they can, but they can't. I'll just walk away.

When people clap for me I say, don't clap for me, clap for what God has done.

If you look at the people in Hollywood who are heavy partiers, they're selfish, self-centered and egotistical.

The only things that were available to me were either be a laborer or be a drug dealer. So I became an armed robber. It was a lot simpler.

I never imagined that I'd be out of prison.

Acting is just a job. I'm exactly the same as that lady bringing us coffee, and I have to remember that.

There is no significance of God in my life, God is my life. I would not be, without God. I am supposed to be dead.

Anybody over 40 is an older person. You better give them some respect.

Prepare yourself for some bad news: Ronald Reagan’s library just burned down. Both books were destroyed. But the real horror: He hadn’t finished coloring either one of them.

And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me.

Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.

All men are poets at heart.

Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen.

When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.

My main interest in being a director, and the most important thing to me, is that world with the actors.

Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money.

Evil may mar the divine image and cloud its brilliance, but it cannot destroy it.