“Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.”

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.

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.

Any time I have an Internet connection, there’s a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.

Well, that was kind of fun, wasn’t it? I mean, I don’t see where this could go, because we pretty much did everything. But it was fun.”

I believe they know everything that I do and think, and they still love me

When you write, produce, engineer and mix everything yourself, it tends to take a long time to do anything

The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.

Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.

The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It’s like Batman’s utility belt.

I think I’m a trivia nerd. I love to learn about everything. I’m curious.