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.

Jamie Foxx

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.

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!

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.

And perfect happiness? Man, that's a...the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.

I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior.

I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.