When I'm playing Big Momma, it's so much work that all I want to do, when I'm finished, is go back home and just relax and study my lines and get ready for the next day.

I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean?

NO ONE is immune to the trials and tribulations of life.

Life- ride it until the wheels fall off.

You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say, 'Wow, they made a difference in some kind of way.'

I just try to get along with people and show the love that I would like to be shown to me.

Everybody has a Big Momma: the mother or the grandmother who tells it like it is, keeps it real with them, isn't afraid to tell you the truth about yourself.

For me, this was all or nothing. I left no room for anything else. That goal was just for my own push, my own self-esteem. The fear of not being a success in my life made me push even harder.

I don't really judge. To each his own. You like what you like.

You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.

I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.

You can't understand depth of science, unless you challenge the published scientific data.

A person that has more intelligence than education always makes his own grade!

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.

Nonviolence is something very powerful, and the power behind it is not weapons, but the support of the people.

Beauty is nature’s way of acting at a distance.

You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.

David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.

The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them. It’s for their own good.