“People have said, ‘You don’t need to do any more biopics. You don’t need to play any more real people.’ I don’t agree with that.”

Some states spend more $$ on prisons than on colleges. We have to make a change.

Blessed to meet so many great people everywhere I go. Can’t thank you all enough for the support.

In dark hours, true leaders rise.

If Love is too much to ask, at least Respect everyone, regardless of race, creed, sexual preference, bloodline, criminal history, power, or position.

If we don’t learn from the mistakes of the past, we are doomed to repeat them in the future.

For all the claims that we now live in a society free of racism, the tragedies that presently overwhelm us are a stiff dose of reality.

I am not a huge fan of surprises.

FBF to one of the most beautiful locations I’ve ever shot at.

Rise up. Register. Let your voice be heard.

I can definitely dance, but pedestrian dancing.

I’m not so keen on letting my car drive itself.

I don’t have a smart house. My house is very dumb.

Each movie you do about a real person is like a painting, and you choose certain things in the painting that you want to pull out and you want to show.

I’d taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn’t a musical theater person at all.

I can’t even imagine something being more fun than playing James Brown onstage.

I don’t read reviews, but I do get feedback from my peers and people I know, like other actors and directors and producers.

I’m sorry, if you were right, I’d agree with you.

I’d rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.

Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.

I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago

If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.

If two people agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.

Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.