For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.
I had a hit single on the radio for 30 days before I graduated from high school.
Summer, summer, summertime time to sit back and unwind.
Human beings are not creatures of logic; we are creatures of emotion. And we do not care what’s true. We care how it feels.
Don’t let failure go to your heart, and don’t let success go to your head.
Don’t chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people – the ones who really belong in your life – will come to you. And Stay.
Anything can go away. There’s no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there’s really no such thing.
I want to represent the idea that you really can make what you want. I believe I can create whatever I want to create.
There’s a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have. You have to believe that something different than what has happened for the last 50 million years of history – you have to believe that something different can happen.
You can cry, ain’t no shame in it.
A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.
When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer.
The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school. Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests – not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.
I’ve trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.
Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.
I love living. I think that’s infectious, it’s something you can’t fake.
I read a Bruce Lee quote that shifted how I’m trying to live my life right now. He said, “Some targets are only meant to be aimed at.” Right? And I took that to mean a shift for myself from goal orientation to path orientation.
I’ve always been a jokester. The things I got in trouble for, when I was little, was always about making a joke or setting up a prank or being silly when I should be paying attention.
The big thing I tell my kids is you have to control how you label things. It’s very important to me they understand the power they have to create the lives that they want.
I think my general disposition on life is finding what’s funny about it. When something happens, the first thing in my mind is, “What’s funny about it?”