Ultimately what I want to do, I want to go back and do some more action movies.

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.

Honor is for the Lord. Who the Lord honors, and how He'll do it, is all up to Him.

The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness, It's Intimacy

This is the hardest job I've ever had, being a mom, but it's the most rewarding job I've ever had.

The only advice I have for youth is to date outside your race. I just think it's so cute when I see little kids in interracial relationships; it makes me feel like I'm watching a commercial.

What joy when the insouciant armadillo glances at us and doesn't quicken his trotting across the track into the palm brush. What is this joy? That no animal falters, but knows what it must do?

He that lives well sees a farre off.

Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.

A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.

If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.

I am so thankful I had the strength and promises of a loving God to guide my choices and decisions, and to uphold me through the unbelievably dark days and times of overwhelming sorrow.