I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.

You can't boycott something you never went to anyway,so why put energy into it?

I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.

Don't want to hear my favorite rapper doin' a love song. If I want to hear something soft, I'll throw on Luther Vandross.

I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It's like, 'The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.'

Everybody that wants to be successful should always be careful of what you wish for. A lot of artists and entertainers want to put the genie back in the bottle and wish they could go back to being what they were.

Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.