"Black people playing tennis, next white people will be tap dancing!"
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"Before 2010, I had a vision. I saw a family in my mind that I wanted to have. And I was pushing and driving hard for my picture, and then I realized everyone has their own journey. I have to support what they want to do. I have to support the vision that they have for themselves, not my vision. That was excruciating for me."
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"You can't be scared to die for the truth. The truth is the only thing that is ever going to be constant."
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"Life is lived on the edge."
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"You'd be surprised how much you don't understand what other people see your actions as; how other people view the things you say and the things that you do. And a lot of times just clarifying what your intentions are with people makes a huge difference."
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"As a child, I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember."
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"I'm motivated by fear...a fear of fear. I hate being afraid to do something."
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"There's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have. You have to believe that something different than what has happened for the last 50 million years of history - you have to believe that something different can happen."
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"Probably means there's a good chance. Possibly means we might or we might not."
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"Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. Why would you be realistic? What's the point of being realistic? I'm going to do it. It's done. It's already done. The second I decide it's done, it's already done."
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"I don't necessarily believe in organized religion."
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"On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'"
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"I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it."
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"I keep going because I doubt myself. It drives me to be better. I've learned that the mastery of self-doubt is the key to success. It's like being animated by the love of a woman - the need to be worthy of her."
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"You've got to run your career. What happens is a lot of times artists have this talent and they're just looking for somebody to take it and do something with it. And you have to be the creative force."
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"In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons."
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"I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious."
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"Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity. What's the point of being realistic? It's unrealistic to walk into a room, flip a switch, and have light come on, but fortunately Edison didn't think so."
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"If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States."
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"Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old."
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