“The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you’re in this heavy headspace all the time.”

Nothing comes easy when I’m in character, because everything I do in character, I take seriously.

Most of my confidence came from being with ladies, because I certainly wasn’t getting any acting jobs.

If you believe in the project, you have to support it.

I would love to do more science fiction. I always envisioned the Riddick franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.

I think there’s something we all relate to about wanting to get to our most primal self.

I’m a New Yorker. I always have issues with trust – you adopt it from being a New Yorker.

We’ve come a long way, from where we’ve been. I’ll tell you all about it when I see you again.

They say the open road helps you think. About where you’ve been and where you’re going.

Career diversification ain’t a bad thing.

My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.

You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality, you don’t want to do those films every year because they’re taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.

You break her heart, I’ll break your neck.

Find your confidence, lead with love, the rest will follow.

You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that’s a home run.

I’m a perfectionist. I’m very critical, especially artistically.

The most important thing in life will always be family. The people right here, right now.

I’m from New York and I love New York and I’m always repping New York, but what I represent is something deeper than just being a New York rapper.

Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind.

Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.

Our real journey in life is interior; It is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts. Never was it more necessary to respond to that action.

Fear makes us fiction writers.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.

Be Powerful not to dominate others, but to conquer yourself.