“I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself.”

You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we’re all brought up differently.’

I read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. ‘Oh, he left his black wife to go be with some exotic chick.’ First of all, my girl is black: she’s Jamaican.

I’m not a good storm-outer… because I forget stuff.

I’m a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I’m doing. I don’t want to work for other people forever.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

My mom was very strict. She didn’t let me watch anything rated R or anything with cussing.

Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn’t just a director. He’s potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.

I’ve turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‘Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.’

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

I love soft-cotton white T-shirts.

If you want to appeal to everyone, you can’t do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date – when you’re in Australia, when you’re in Dubai, when you’re in Indonesia.

I’m happy about working; I’m happy about gracing the stage and coming out and making people laugh.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

MAKE STATEMENTS also applies to us women: Speak in statements instead of apologetic questions. No one wants to go to a doctor who says, “I’m going to be your surgeon? I’m here to talk to you about your procedure?

He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.

I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey.

I am constantly amazed by man’s inhumanity to man.

The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.

I feel like the more I work on different songs and the more I work on my voice constantly…

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.