“People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.”

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.

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.

Trade is critical to us all – it ensures we have what we need to live, that the NHS gets the equipment it needs to save lives, and that developing countries can prosper.

It’s all about knowing the balance, because I like to remain somewhat of a mystery. You need to have that, you know what I mean?

If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.

Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.

We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grownups would do.

Dawn came on us like a betrayer; it seemed as though the new sun rose as an ally of our enemies to assist in our destruction.

Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.

All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God’s madmen too, the rest of the world.