We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

You know what? I never really factor Hollywood into anything. I'm a black actor, so I can't really control what Hollywood thinks. I gotta go do my thing, and my jokes have got to be funny. Whatever I do has got to be great.

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

Black people are the most talented people in the world.

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

With Django Unchained, when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.

What I've noticed is that when people win huge and they have those huge, huge successes, sometimes they forget about the actual acting of it, and sometimes it's hard to come down from their perch.