I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.

I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.

I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.

Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.

I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.

Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.

I guess I had it made. My mother gave me advice - she taught me that women like to be looked in the eye - and my grandmother gave me condoms.

The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.

Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.

Down time is not the name of the game.

Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.

I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.

We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina.

People nowadays don't know about the Cold War and the U.S.'s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R.

I've been told if you're an actress you can't sing, if you're a dancer you can't act, you can't do theatre and be respected if you've done a TV soap, you can't have a No. 1 record. All these different things they've told me I can't do, but I wanted to do them, so I've done them.

One can remain eternally young if, each day, one grows rich by marvelous moments.

I have 3 dogs myself - I actually have a kennel license in order to do so. I love them so much I couldn't imagine my life without them.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.

Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

Some actors just won't bend, and then it's a bitch. You either fight or find ways of putting your words in their mouth and letting them say it back at you.

I've always been able to hear and read what I say before I say it. That's why I'm a good quote. Or a good interview. If I say something that's uncomfortable for someone's ears, it's going to be the truth; I just happen to voice it. But it's the truth. It's not my opinion.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.

I know that Oswald killed Kennedy. Now, was he pushed? Encouraged to do it by outsiders? Possibly. Possibly. Was he sitting down with Fidel Castro? No.

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.

'Activate Your Goodness' explains how we all have a stake in our collective future, each and every person in their own unique way. As I see it, it is all about personally taking responsibility for our actions, and fully realizing that by thinking good, speaking good and doing good, you can find your place in life.

Games lubricate the body and mind.

As an actor myself, I know we go where the work is, but I think it's sad the Lyric haven't found any homegrown talent.

Marijuana may not be addictive, but growing it is.

If you do the same thing too often, it gets to be the only thing you can do.

I think I have a lot of internal energy, which does need to come out.

Read the writers whose work is still around and has survived the winds of fashion and the attacks of the ignorant and the bigoted - read everything you can get your hands on.