Just stay ready. Stay in shape and then you don't have to rush to train before the movie starts. I'll show you my abs later because I’m in shape. But that idea, if you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready.

My God, my higher power. It's mine and mine alone. I create my connection and I decide how my connection is going to be.

My grandmother used to always say, 'People need to be worth something.'

As a child, I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.

When you look around at the six people that you spend the most time with, that's who you are. I think that in making those decisions in who you are going to be married to, who your friends are going to be, those are really huge, critical, life decisions. Who gets to talk to you everyday, is almost like the food that you eat. It is a very huge critical situation to choose who the people are that you are spending your life with, spending your time with and who you are choosing to give your love and everything to.

The execs don't care what color you are. They care about how much money you make. Hollywood is not really black or white. It's green.

I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.