Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.
Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it.
It doesn't matter what people feel about you because everyone is going to have an opinion.
Set your heights more than what you see around you, see beyond.
I learned never to say, 'That's too tight.' If a woman puts it on and feels good about herself, then it's for her.
There are going to be ups and downs in any relationship. It's a team.
I've always been comfortable in the skin that I'm in.
I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.
Weight was never an issue with me.
It takes all sorts to make a world - saints as well as soldiers.
My choices were never wrong.
My wife and I have always trusted each other, and I have to thank her strength.
My parents always worked through their arguments and never went to bed angry. They may not have agreed with one another, but they didn't let that disagreement stop them from laying with one another in peace at night.
I've worked with some actors who can't act.
Comedy is second nature for me.
If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team.
You can say what you want to about a rapper in a movie, but look at what Ice Cube has done. Ice Cube has created more opportunities for other actors to get jobs in this business than some actors have.
We were a spiritual family. My mother always told me, 'People hated Jesus Christ, so why should you worry about them?' Once she put it in that perspective, I was like, 'You're right, Ma.'
I always thought I was the finest thing around.
Sometimes, as a team, you win together. Sometimes as a team you lose together.
It's just a matter of me opening up the page and whatever is written on the page, that's what I'm here to do.
If we believe the good we read about ourselves, we have to believe the bad we read about ourselves.
Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.
More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.
There isn't a switch that I turn on. I'm an actor. This is what I do.
