It's great to be strong but strength is nothing without having compassion.
Never let anyone define you. You are the only person who defines you. No one can speak for you. Only you speak for you. You are your only voice.
Never stop! Slow down sometimes, but never stop!
Embrace failure. Never never quit. Get very comfortable with that uneasy feeling of going against the grain and trying something new. It will constantly take you places you never thought you could go. This has been my mantra for years. I always remember I won't do things right on the first try. So failure is mandatory for success!
Never stop being YOU. I am out to be the best ME I can be. Do what you LOVE and you will be badass.
I constantly get out of my comfort zone. Looking cool is the easiest way to mediocrity. The coolest guy in my high school ended up working at a car wash. Once you push yourself into something new, and whole new world of opportunities opens up. But you might get hurt. In fact you WILL get hurt. But amazingly when you heal - you are somewhere you've never been.
You only have but so much time to make an impact or people will forget you. My goal always is to make the biggest impact possible.
You get better at working by working. And if you don't work, you're not getting better.
The thing that you think is imperfect about you, is the thing that makes you who you are. It separates you from everybody else.
You can't be perfect, so enjoy your imperfections.
It ain't easy being cheesy!
I call myself the Amusement Park. That's because I'm funny and scary at the same time.
Trying to be cool is the easiest path to mediocrity
You have to empathize with your children. If you love them, you never really get too angry with them when they make a mistake, because kids are expected to make mistakes. Having children, you start to see yourself through them.
I just see the opportunities and I go for them. I don't want to play my career safe. I've had my successes and I've had a few failures, too. But you just keep going and do the best that you can. That's what I've learned.
I want to be a man who mixes strengths and compassion. That's my magic elixir, so to speak.
Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.
A lot of my colleagues are content to be character actors who are always in the background. I'm not that guy. I'm the guy who wants the limelight. Gimme the ball and I'll run it through a brick wall for you. I'll be your biggest soldier.
School is cool. Thats why it rhymes
My mantra is "I don't want to let anybody down." Maybe that's not the right attitude, because you can't please everybody. But I'm giving it everything I've got.
By myself, I'm a hard pill. My wife makes me look real good, because she smoothes my rough edges. That's why I say, "Take your wife everywhere. It's a good thing."
I'm African-American by my culture, not by my color. Race does not exist.
I consider myself a feminist. My whole life has been about standing up for women, for anybody really, who's been abused.
I relax while I work. It's really weird but my job doesn't feel like work at all. That's why I try to do as much as possible. When I'm on the set, learning lines and playing around, I'm relaxed. It's so amazing.
But think about how evil that is for one man to think that he's actually more valuable than a woman, because as a human being your worth is immeasurable.
