“You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.”

People see me on the street, and they point to me, and they’re like, ‘Hey! All right, all right, all right!’

I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he’s talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

I love diversity.

I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.

When you’re doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it’s most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies.

I got a dog with a Napoleon complex. I have a Napoleon complex. We’re small. Anything big that we feel is threatening us, we want to fight. We’re not a pushover.

I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

The original ‘About Last Night’ was phenomenal.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.

This younger generation that’s around, that’s tweeting, Facebooking and Vine-ing, the fans appreciate that because they feel like they can get to you.

A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.

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.