When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart.

I get to be in movies where it's mostly dialogue, and I want to be in something, that for me, feels like kickboxing.

Denzel's quality, I think, is his faith. You have all the action in your head and you have to believe in it and just do it. That's what he does and that's what he taught me to do.

He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action.

Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance.

The magic isn't in getting married, it's in staying married.

Hollywood is a place where if you abide by the rules and laws, you can get depressed. That's why faith and spirituality is a higher law.

I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist.

As a parent my greatest fear is always anything that endangers my children.

I think many times in relationships as it escalates to marriage, what it takes to breed a marriage, is the same thing that it takes to breed a career.

I loved B.I.G., but not like I liked Tupac, because he was an actor, so I related to him.

All times are sacred and must be kept Holy

You want to start over?" he murmured against her ear. His hot breath sent shivers to her toes.

Fear of failure, it's the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.

Burnett fidgeted. She had never seen Burnett like this. He looked like a kid who needed to go to the bathroom.

America as a nation cannot walk in faith and fear at the same time.

In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.

But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect.

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.

You can't be citing Japanese internment camps for anything the president elect is going to do!

It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance.