Boxing kept me out of the streets, by giving me something to do. And it gave me a father figure in the coach that was there for me. I just reiterated what my mother was trying to teach me about focusing and getting my life together.
I don’t really judge. To each his own. You like what you like.
I don’t really judge. To each his own. You like what you like. If you want someone who’s big-boned and you like that, ain’t nothing wrong with having a little extra meat on their. If you like them thin-boned, then that’s okay too.
I don’t want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean?
Enjoy your popcorn and enjoy the show. It’s just a movie, so have fun!
It’s always fun to be able to have a voice, because it helps me to stay in tune with the project and the people that I am working with. Ther’s nothing worse than being on a project and not being able to have a voice. I don’t like that.
When I’m playing Big Momma, it’s so much work that all I want to do, when I’m finished, is go back home and just relax and study my lines and get ready for the next day.
Life- ride it until the wheels fall off.
My audience is a diehard audience. They are dedicated. My audience always follows me and sticks with me. They’re the reason I’m still here – in the films and in stand-ups.
Women love to impress and be their best.
I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I’m doing and deliver on the character. In Hollywood, what more can you ask for. You want a consummate professional.
I don’t like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.
As long as there’s Big Momma, we’re going to bring you comedy.
You might see some of the movies that I’m in where there are shades of drama or whatever, but for the most part, I don’t get offered serious roles.
Everybody has a Big Momma: the mother or the grandmother who tells it like it is, keeps it real with them, isn’t afraid to tell you the truth about yourself.
We grew to know the meaning of love. That is what allowed me and my family to stay close together.
If I give you two children films then come back and give you an adult film. I just love mixing it up and not being pegged into one specific thing.
I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.
If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain’t personal then I’ll go to another place and I’ll meditate.
In the run-up to the election, Stephen Harper had rolled out the rhetoric on the need for clean and transparent government, expressing frustration with Paul Martin’s Liberals over their alleged secrecy and obstructionism. “When a government starts trying to cancel dissent or avoid dissent,” Harper declared in a statement to be later viewed as notable for ironic content, “Is frankly when it is rapidly losing its moral authority to govern.