I love to talk about people I've met being an entertainer. All my encounters in life - I roll it all into an hour and 30 minutes.

I get on stage and talk about different stuff in my life and what I've been through and what I think about the world. It's picking out highlights of things and how I became who I am and how my daddy raised me.

Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me.

When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

A lot of lines in movies were written, but I'm always improvising. Once you get into the scene, it just comes to me.

I want to do movies that mean something, that make people laugh and cry great movies, period-piece movies and work with the best people out there, who bring the best out of me.

A black President? Now come on y'all, we got Clinton, that's close. He got negro tendencies.