“I’ve done a great job at being universal in my stand-up, which is why, for ‘Let Me Explain,’ I toured all over the world. These movies I have coming out – ‘Ride Along,’ ‘Grudge Match,’ ‘About Last Night,’ ‘Think Like a Man Too’ – are putting me in a position to become universal on an even bigger scale.”

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.

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest.

I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.

I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes.

Best Man Holiday’ was a very successful film.

There’s no reason why I can’t be a mogul. When I step into a room and I’m there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business,

At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.

I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ;

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

It’s all about what they can get out of me.

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?

All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.

The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.

There are times in all of our lives when a reliance on gut or intuition just seems more appropriate – when a particular course of action just feels right.