Anyone who tells you money can't buy happiness never had any.
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I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.
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I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them.. That's American politics, pure and simple.
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I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.
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People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.
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People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.
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All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.
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Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.
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The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.
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I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.
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