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

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.

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.

It’s just very hard to teach a class of students about what has happened in the Global Financial Crisis.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

Any top-level athlete, it’s always the same. There’s always that hint of arrogance there… It’s hard to be humble when you’re the best.

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it’s hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

The ones I am going to have to really work hard on early in the game to get what I want.

Hey, I think it’s easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it’s a much greater accomplishment. That’s hard.

I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.

Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.