Jamie Foxx Quotes

We can't retract the decisions we've made, we can only affect the decisions we're going to make from here.

If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we're living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it.

You are what you repeatedly do when things get hard.

Black people are the most talented people in the world.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

If you can, always be appreciative of the ebb and flow of the losses and the wins.

We can't wave a magic wand and get rid of any of these people's problems, but what they want is they want to be heard.

I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for Ray, I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.

I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account.

I wish I could take what I'm feeling right now and put it in the water system, and we would all love each other.

Doc Rivers been hoarse since birth

I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.

all of us feel special inside to where we feel as if we are the best, unique, or blessed. of course this is true, our error in this thought process is we forget that all the other people and all living things are just as special as we feel about ourselve.

Every single thing in my life is built around race.

A woman's posterior is the key to my heart.

I want to thank my daughter, who told me, 'If you don't win, Dad, you're still good,' ... who taught me how to act.

I live young and I keep the weight off of me.

I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

It's like church over here. It's like church in here. First of all, give an honor to God and our Lord and Savior Barack Obama.

(I get to) kill all the white people... How great is that?

If I were an animal, I would be an eagle.

My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.

My Grandmother would say, 'Make sure you look good. Make sure you speak well. Make sure you remain that Southern gentleman that I've taught you to be.'

This whole thing called the internet and all this other kind of stuff is about to go crazy. It's all going to change. But, you know what's not going to change? The talented people.