Every one of us is an artist, and as an artist, you really can stroll into any venue that you want, as long as you take your time to learn the etiquette of that venue.
Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.
You keep knocking on the devil's door long enough and sooner or later someone's gonna answer you.
I want to be the condensation on the glass. I want to be that phenomenon that takes place between hot and cold.
There's nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade. Some things have to be exposed.
I like women who look like me. Generally, you're attracted to women who look like you, because the most beautiful thing in nature is your own reflection.
My future's about trying to be a better man
As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm
If evolution works, why are monkeys still around?
In every person we meet there's this little piece of God in them and that's who you talk to. And that's the only person that you allow to talk to you. When something else is speaking, you walk away from that. If it's not good, if it's not love, you walk away from it
The most important thing I can teach my kids is that you can't put your value in looks. Presence is based upon magnitude. You can pretend to have an air about you but it is quickly deflated, you cannot deflate presence. Presence walks into a room and surrounds and fills anything that's in that room without trying to demand it, it takes over. It can come from a smile. Like I said, love makes you beautiful. What is beautiful radiates.
There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle.
My father always said that if you want oranges, you have to go to where the oranges grow.
There's a scripture in the Book of James which says, 'Become a doer of the word and not a hearer only.' A hearer is someone who looks into a mirror, walks away, and quickly forgets what sort of person he is.
If a relationship is built on sexuality, it won't last long.
I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can
Toilet paper - and no baby wipes - in the bathroom. If they're using dry paper, they aren't washing all of themselves. It's just unclean. So if I go in a woman's house and see the toilet paper there, I'll explain this. And if she doesn't make the adjustment to baby wipes, I'll know she's not completely clean.
We call the Creator father, because we rely upon Him to protect us, guide us, feed us, keep us warm, to discipline us and all those things. I try to take my cue from the Creator, with regard to my children.
Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression
Every role you play is literally - and I've said this before - every single role that you play, the only way you can connect to that character is because that was a piece of you that was scattered around that yard, almost like we got caught up in some whirlwind
Dating black women will ruin your life
If you're not going to do your job, get out of here. Don't mess up my work. This is how I feed my family.
All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.
The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can.
But George Lucas is carrying about Black actors, about Black men, about Black history, which really incorporates and tells all of history. You can't take one race out without eliminating every other race if you're going to tell the story of the human race.
