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"Reading... there have been millions and billions and billions and gazillions of people that have lived before all of us. There's no new problem you could have - with your parents, with school, with a bully, with anything. There's no problem you can have that someone hasn't already solved and wrote about it in a book."
"I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood."
"I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women."
"I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class."
"I think it would be arrogant and borderline foolish to believe there's no other life forms that exist out there."
"I want to represent possibilities."
"I truly believe that I can be president of the US if I really want to."
"The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'"
"I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent."
"I am inspired beyond my ability to articulate... and now I know what and who I want to be... a soldier for peace."
"It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's black."
"The only man you will ever get is some fool named Grady who falls asleep in his soup."
"When you're talking to a person, it only matters what they are perceiving. You only need them to perceive you as a loving husband. You don't necessarily need to be one. That's always a good road, if you actually are one. But what people are perceiving will dictate what their life is, and ultimately what your interaction is."
"I'm used to people clapping at the end of the movie."
"Things work in spite of me sometimes."
"I want to represent possibilities. I want to represent magic, right, that you're in a universe, and two plus two equals four."
"I think that when I make a film, I'm terrified that people will come to work and work on something that they're not proud of."
"There's a forgiveness that literary audiences will give you that film audiences don't give you. It's the two hour construct. You're in there and it needs to climax and finish."
"I think that my sensibilities are becoming slightly less delicate and I'm venturing out in a storytelling world."
"When you connect to a primal idea - life, death, hunger, hope, fear - any of those primal ideas are going to translate, and I think that's the thing that I've always been attracted to in my work."