I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.

It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends.

I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.

Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.

When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.

When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.

Some roles have been with me forever

I'm a fan myself, so when a fan does something that might be strange, I understand it.

You might get some serial killers who are born with a chip missing, but for the most part I don't think anyone is born bad.

I've always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That's how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.

I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for Ray, I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.

As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.

When your movie is hot, your options are crazy.

I'm a southern gentleman.

What we do in New Orleans, man - we party!

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?