If I fail as Jamie Foxx, I'll just change my name and come back as something else.

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

You guys have so much energy. I threw a party in Toronto and there were, like, 4,000 people who couldn't get in.

What we do in New Orleans, man - we party!

As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.

Nobody wants to hear R&B. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.

I think girls have to play a little hard to get because we come with so much bravado.

When your movie is hot, your options are crazy.

I love music. I've always wanted to do music, even when I started out as a comedian.

Lil Wayne is a music god!!!!

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

I'm a southern gentleman.

Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.

We can't wave a magic wand and get rid of any of these people's problems, but what they want is they want to be heard.

In L.A. you can hide. I can hide at the beach, hide up in the hills. In Miami everybody is looking at you.

I would say my grandmother would be like my personal god.

I am a comedian and you guys know whatever I say, I don't mean any of it.

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

What I've noticed is that when people win huge and they have those huge, huge successes, sometimes they forget about the actual acting of it, and sometimes it's hard to come down from their perch.

I think there's grays in characters if you look at all the great characters, those characters that have those layers of being good and being bad and what's the struggle. It's always more interesting to watch.

All of us black comedians are trying to be mainstream, but you don't want to lose the edge.

Mike Tyson's life is one of the most amazing American stories.

Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery?

Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery?

I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior.

The most interesting thing about acting is when you go to the dark places, that's a lot of energy. When you go to the happiest places, it's also a lot of energy.

Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic.

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.

I don't know if I'm built for marriage.

If I were an animal, I would be an eagle.

I play a slave. How black is that? I have to wear chains. How whack is that? But don’t worry. I get free. I save my wife and I kill all the white people in the movie. How great is that?

My Grandmother would say, 'Make sure you look good. Make sure you speak well. Make sure you remain that Southern gentleman that I've taught you to be.'

I had that upbringing. Of watching 'Bonanza,' watching 'Hee Haw,' which both black and white would watch. I rode horses. I did gun spinning as a kid. I do these things.

I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for Ray, I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.

To be the leading man it's about the celebrity and the looks, and it's tough to do that. People who do it great are people like Tom Cruise and Will Smith - they're built for that. I ain't. I'm more of a character guy.

I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing.

You have a responsibility to your work, to your choices. Once you get to a certain level of quality and commitment, you don't want to go back and make Booty Call 7.

And perfect happiness? Man, that's a...the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.

I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.

I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it’s just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it’s stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.

This whole thing called the internet and all this other kind of stuff is about to go crazy. It's all going to change. But, you know what's not going to change? The talented people.

We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you.

It's like church over here. It's like church in here. First of all, give an honor to God and our Lord and Savior Barack Obama.

My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.

A woman's posterior is the key to my heart.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

I live young and I keep the weight off of me.