"Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well."

"Leo couldn't deliver Mr. Martin Scorsese his Oscar with 'The Aviator', but I will go on record to say I will do so in 'The Departed'."

"Some of these guys... I've worked with Ice Cube, I think he's an immensely talented rapper and actor."

"I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship."

"You can say what you want to about a rapper in a movie, but look at what Ice Cube has done. Ice Cube has created more opportunities for other actors to get jobs in this business than some actors have."

"If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team."

"Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot a helicopter out of the sky. That's the only fight I'm in."

"Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor."

"If they respect the craft and what we're doing and they bring something to the table and they work hard, I don't care what you do as your side job or as your day job."

"There isn't a switch that I turn on. I'm an actor. This is what I do."

"I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house."

"It's a remake of a film called Inferno Affairs. It's a Hong Kong film, and if we come anywhere close to what they did in the original, we're going to have a hot property on our hands, because Inferno Affairs is a great piece."

"My choices were never wrong."

"Things are changing. I've been training since I was 9 years old to stretch my wings as an actor dramatically, but have never really been afforded the opportunity to show that."

"Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it."

"I ain't got nothing. I've got this watch, and these shoes, and that's about it."

"Comedy is second nature for me."

"It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds."

"My wife and I have always trusted each other, and I have to thank her strength."

"I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion."

"They gave us the freedom just to play and have fun."

"I've worked with some actors who can't act."

"You take the quote from Sam Jackson about how he'll never work with a rapper, and I can understand where he's coming from because he says rappers can't act."

"Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do."