Quotes from Terrence Howard

All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.

My father always said that if you want oranges, you have to go to where the oranges grow.

We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there's another side that can be as harsh and as ugly as the darkest thing you could imagine seeing.

The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can.

As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm.

My future's about trying to be a better man

They say everybody gets 15 minutes. I hope I'm just inside the first minute and the next 14 go really slow.

My future's about trying to be a better man.

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.

As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm.

And I'm very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in film, gain the benefit of my education, and be thankful that I was able to break into my craft as an actor.

I am an engineer, but what I find important and necessary is that you just learn things as you go along.

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.

Dating black women will ruin your life

If you're not going to do your job, get out of here. Don't mess up my work. This is how I feed my family.

And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula.

And when I stopped doing that and started thinking about what feels natural and what feels right to me and started pleasing myself, then it became good.

And right now I may just be living inside the heart of the body, and I one day hope to move to the brain.

I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can