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I'm a good mimic.
So don't send me up the river yet.
I mainly buy books in my free time.
So: see ya, and I wouldn't wanna be ya.
I think I have kind of a natural magnetism.
My mother was pretty much on my case all the time.
A lot of people now don't know I've been on Broadway.
I have a whole other side that has yet to be seen on screen.
I think any man would be nervous if his liberty is at stake.
You can put a cat in an oven, but that don't make it a biscuit.
We should be able to go to our government and get clear answers.
I think of myself as a young prince from a long line of royalty.
I didn't defraud the government by taking money that was not mine.
I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.
I've always been paying my taxes and I've always been trying to comply.
I never really planned on making action films. It just kind of happened.
I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.
I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York.
You give Frost a message from me. You tell him it's open season on all suckheads.
I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!'
I come out of repertory theatre so I've been working under pressure my whole career.
I don't see myself as extremely handsome. I just figure I can charm you into liking me.
I don't like perpetuating the stereotype of black males being drug dealers, and criminals.
Internationally, I have as large of a fan base - if not larger - than I have domestically.
A lot of the cats I grew up with in the South Bronx found themselves in sticky situations.
There is a bit of arrogance with 'Hollywood' types that doesn't sit well with game developers.
Not everybody can do the comic book adaptation thing and make it believable. It is challenging.
I like to read about different religions - Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism.
Certain roles are more challenging than others, but I haven't come across one yet that I can't tackle.
I'm a physical type of actor and love projects in which I can get physical. The more action, the better.
We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.
Personally I find there is just as much if not more creativity among game makers as there is among feature filmmakers.
I love being a dad, it keeps me fit and inspired and children are so funny. They always supply you with acting material!
I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching.
Lot of the scripts I've been in with other non-white actors haven't been great. Lot of non-white actors ain't all that great.
No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.
The first time I jumped from a plane, I screamed like a woman. I was two miles up and you could hear me clear as day. Now I love it.
Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.
If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am.
I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.
I'm proud to be an American. I'm proud to be an African American in America. I've had some interesting experiences: some great, some not so great, but I love it here.
I was very short when I was little, so I probably had - and there may be a residue of it now - that Napoleon complex. Wanting to be as big and as powerful as the big guys.
I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.
In the beginning, all I wanted to do was to be a singer and a dancer. That was my real groove, my real interest. When it came to doing films, my biggest goal was to do a commercial.
My sign is Leo. A Leo has to walk with pride. When he takes a step, he has to put his foot down. You walk into a room and you want people to know your presence, without you doing anything.
Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.
There are so few guys who do action and do it well. Even fewer who are African-American. Even fewer who have classical-theater training. So a cat like me coming in, I'm bringing all of that to an action movie.
I have some cops in my family. I understand the predicament that they're in. Sometimes they go into it just to pay the bills or because they don't have other choices, or sometimes they just want to get the gun.
I've come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren't comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It's a contradiction.
I'm not looking at an action movie as something where I just jump around and look beautiful and show my muscles. Since there are so few people that do this and have that pedigree, people disregard their contribution.