I want an open dialogue. I want husbands and wives and people in relationships to walk out of the theater thinking, "Could this happen to me? I know I'm being tempted."

I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they're schizophrenic - as if I don't know that!

What I've learned is you treat women right.

It's most important that you surround yourself with positivity always, and have it in your mind at all times.

I put a thong on a few months ago trying to be sexy. I've been looking for it but ain't seen it since.

There was our house in New Orleans. Two blocks in front of us were these beautiful mansions and two blocks behind us were the ghetto, projects, and that's where I had to go to school, but I would always pattern my life looking forward. It was almost literal.

It's so important to forgive people for their wrongs in your own life because every bit of it was for a reason-it was to form the person that you are.