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?

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?

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.

If I were an animal, I would be an eagle.

My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.

It's like church over here. It's like church in here. First of all, give an honor to God and our Lord and Savior Barack Obama.

Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.