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

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

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.

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?

I play a slave. How black is that? I have to wear chains. How whack is that? But don’t worry. I get free. I save my wife and I kill all the white people in the movie. How great is that?

if I fail as Jamie Foxx, I'll just change my name and come back as something else.

Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic.