I call myself a FFP: former fat person, and when you're an FFP, you will always see in yourself what people used to bully you for.
When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.
Unless you have financial resources of your own, you can't be free.
When you're feeling very comfortable with an actor, you are doing nothing.
I hear a lot of influence from me and Timbaland's whole sound in a lot of records of today. But if you have classics like that, then I'm sure you gotta expect that it's gonna influence some people. So, I'm fine with that.
You just realize that at the beginning of 'Scooby' you're just going to start at level ten and stay at ten the entire time. It's hard. It physically beats you up. It's definitely one of the hardest movies you can do.
It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
There's something about childhood friends that you just can't replace.
One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning. To resist the dangers of the world, you have to recognize the distortions and seductions of the world.
I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.
It seems like the more I live, the more I realize that saying 'yes' is almost never a mistake. If you say no, it might feel safe, but then you end up going nowhere.
As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.
In hip-hop, what you have is you have a lot of formulaic-type bands or rappers that come up. They saw something on the radio, and they want to mimic that formula. And that's just boring. I don't wanna record something just to make money; I want to record something to enjoy it and have fun because I'm a music lover.
It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted.
A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.
Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.
When you deal with change, you have a couple choices: you can lead it and make the rules, or you can be a fast follower, or you can be a slow follower.
Don't think twice. If it's a character that you feel compelled to play and story that you feel needs to be told, don't think twice.
I think if you're able to make the music you want and you can do it in the right kind of context, you don't have to be a circus ringleader to be successful.
I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to.
You've gotta know what death is to know life!
Read everything you can get your hands on: Programme your mind to read all the time and everywhere - even in the bathroom; skim through the lines printed on the back of shampoo bottles and sanitary napkin packets.
My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.
I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.
A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention.
Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
When I compete, I tell myself to be calm. It's not something that's the rest of your life. You're in gymnastics for fun.
You have to fight the green monster with your mind, not your fists.
Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.
It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.
Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.
If everybody knows where everything is kept you can avoid wasting time looking for things.
But in film you always watch situations or stories that you really have no relation to. A lot of times just because there's no personal connection doesn't mean you can't connect with the film or the characters in the film.
You are what you are.
