Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it.

You take the quote from Sam Jackson about how he'll never work with a rapper, and I can understand where he's coming from because he says rappers can't act.

It doesn't matter what people feel about you because everyone is going to have an opinion.

Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.

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.

If we believe the good we read about ourselves, we have to believe the bad we read about ourselves.