To me the work is so much more interesting, the parts that don't require you just to take your shirt off.

I like to eat sweets. When I go to a restaurant, I'll read the dessert menu before I even look at the entrees.

One thing I love about making an ensemble film is that you can have ten people come away from it with ten different messages.

Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing.

It's not always about the money.

I'm kind of a private person, and sometimes it's like pulling teeth to get me to talk.

I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die.

When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.

I'm just happy to be working consistently.

I've been in a situation where I was after the money.

Sometimes the stereotypes that a lot of people have are of black men in jail or who don't take care of their kids, so I think it's always important to have that.

Time slowly fades away but no matter how many years pass I'll never forget you 'cause for me you'll always be the right one

Trust is like blood pressure. It’s silent, vital to good health, and if abused, it can be deadly.

I never thought I would die at the age of seventeen, so when I received the death message, I was a little freaked out.

If you can't write your message in a sentence you can't say it in an hour.

Unless I'm writing trying to write about a historical figure, I don't really set out to read or research with a specific topic in mind.

I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority

To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head.

I want you here with me To guide me, hold me, and love me now

Ordained Baptist minister; I make no apology for my faith.

Many investors prefer comfort, chasing what is popular and loved, rather than pursuing what is out of favor. The markets do not reward comfort.