Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.
Comedy is second nature for me.
You can say what you want to about a rapper in a movie, but look at what Ice Cube has done. Ice Cube has created more opportunities for other actors to get jobs in this business than some actors have.
It takes all sorts to make a world – saints as well as soldiers.
Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it’s wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that’s what I believe as well.
My wife and I have always trusted each other, and I have to thank her strength.
I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.
Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot a helicopter out of the sky. That’s the only fight I’m in.
Leo couldnt deliver Mr. Martin Scorsese his Oscar with The Aviator, but I will go on record to say I will do so in The Departed.
If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I’m on your team.
You say you’re a comedian, you always have to be on guard.
There isn’t a switch that I turn on. I’m an actor. This is what I do.
Set your heights more than what you see around you, see beyond.
It’s just a matter of me opening up the page and whatever is written on the page, that’s what I’m here to do.
I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.
I’m not a comedian. I’m an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.
I’ve worked with some actors who can’t act.
Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.
It’s sort of an action flick. You can’t be that funny trying to steal diamonds.
My choices were never wrong.