"But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn't having it. She was like, you're not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you're going to be out of luck."

"I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence."

"I think because people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing at - I don't say a great pace, but it seems like people are dropping, and I think it's just making - there's a consciousness and there's sensitivity to it."

"Well, you can't compete with a six foot five man in a wig."

"Hopefully when you see the movie, Maybe you don't have the Orlando in your life, but you know that guy. He goes to church. He's down the street. He's one of the boys at the schoolyard. They exist."

"Television is in a different time because of reality television, so it's not as exciting."

"Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting."

"But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher."

"It was truly a lesson in don't take something at face value. You know, so many of us do in life. Whether it's because of how somebody looks or because of what they're wearing or what have you, you kind of assess a person in the first five minutes before they even speak."

"Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength."

"I hosted Soul train but I listen to everything."

"Orlando's a part of me. The next guy's a part of me. And the next guy's a part of me. That's all I'm trying to do, is tell cool stories that people can relate to."

"I'm a drama guy."

"I could run, but I was throwing 93 mph coming out of high school."

"And a lesson in this movie is dig beneath the surface. And so with my words, with my character, I purposely created a character that was away from how you've known me thus far in my career."

"That's because I didn't have to work with Madea. I only had to work with Madea once, and that was at the barbecue and I didn't have to get close to her."

"Denzel has been that leading man, but it took him a while to get to Training Day and Hurricane Carter."

"I got country music in me."

"You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of - my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn't raise me as a black man. She didn't raise me as a white guy."