Also, I think having that comic gene kind of makes you look at things in a different way. If you take yourself so seriously, eventually you end up one of those people having a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on their lives. You see them drawing the curtains and they don't even realize that they've kind of drifted off somewhere.

if I fail as Jamie Foxx, I'll just change my name and come back as something else.

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.

What we do in New Orleans, man - we party!

Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.