Actor

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

Everybody who knows me is like, 'Dude, you've got to chill out.' I can't not work, given where I want to be.

I haven't been perfect.

Sometimes you get yourselves in situations where you don't realize people are actually testing you. People are actually provoking you.

Have I ever abused a woman? Never.

Creating content, creating art, material, being a job creator - it's all very, very important. Very important.

When you do an action movie, you've got to come prepared to do an action movie.

I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I'm not selling out.

There are as many quality African-American actors and actresses as Caucasians, but it seems that they get a lot more opportunities.

I've never put my hands on a woman, physically, ever.

I've always been apprehensive about doing comic books, period.

I think there's a time when your personal life gets magnified by who we are as celebrities.

Little Walter and Muddy Waters were incredible. And Bo Diddley was doing some great stuff, too.

I love working to push the industry forward.

I just can't relax. That's my problem.

It's like, if you're on a ship, and you're sailing towards your destination, but the ship sinks: that doesn't mean that you have to sink. Just because the ship sinks doesn't mean you have to sink. You just figure it out until a raft comes along, and God will send you a raft. Or He'll send you another boat to get you to your destination.

The thing about addiction is you think you're getting off on people, and you're not, and the only person you're fooling is yourself.

I want to provide jobs for people.

I want to play Martin Luther King. That is absolutely a role and a character who is important to the landscape of the world that I really want to play.

There's a myriad of things that go into why movies don't happen right when you make them. If you make a movie in 2010, sometimes it takes up to a year for post-production, and that puts you into 2011, then you have to figure out what your product is, and that takes some time.