Quotes from Wesley Snipes

I have a whole other side that has yet to be seen on screen.

Lot of the scripts I've been in with other non-white actors haven't been great. Lot of non-white actors ain't all that great.

So don't send me up the river yet.

I'm not looking at an action movie as something where I just jump around and look beautiful and show my muscles. Since there are so few people that do this and have that pedigree, people disregard their contribution.

A lot of people now don't know I've been on Broadway.

I love being a dad, it keeps me fit and inspired and children are so funny. They always supply you with acting material!

I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.

No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.

I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.

I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it.

I've come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren't comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It's a contradiction.

Personally I find there is just as much if not more creativity among game makers as there is among feature filmmakers.

I was very short when I was little, so I probably had - and there may be a residue of it now - that Napoleon complex. Wanting to be as big and as powerful as the big guys.

I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York.

I think any man would be nervous if his liberty is at stake.

I didn't defraud the government by taking money that was not mine.

Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.

I never really planned on making action films. It just kind of happened.

Certain roles are more challenging than others, but I haven't come across one yet that I can't tackle.

I've come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren't comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It's a contradiction.

I have some cops in my family. I understand the predicament that they're in. Sometimes they go into it just to pay the bills or because they don't have other choices, or sometimes they just want to get the gun.

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

I've always been paying my taxes and I've always been trying to comply.

There are so few guys who do action and do it well. Even fewer who are African-American. Even fewer who have classical-theater training. So a cat like me coming in, I'm bringing all of that to an action movie.