The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.

Gospel artists are messengers; they are vessels of a message.

I've always given people the benefit of the doubt until they prove me otherwise.

I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.

My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul.

Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues and turn their backs on people that we are fond of and love just because we hurt; and everybody goes through that.

I like to laugh, I like to smile, and I don't take myself too seriously. I can be a goofball.

As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.

We are willing to weather the storm of multiple failures to achieve a goal. We're so convinced in the destination that we are able to let go of the reins and give it to God.

I'm in the booth and first of all, I'm from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life.

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

When you're in the middle of your depression, pay good attention to it, because, tended carefully, you never know where it might lead you.

A leader has a great duty. You have to perform beyond the expectation of the people.

All men have a soul.

I think a lot of people have too much time on their hands.

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.

I'm not knocking the poor homosexual, I'm not. They need salvation just like anybody else.

You don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in.

I think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.

If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.

She just got out of the hospital. Why don't you go gossip behind her back, like decent people?