Quotes from Ernie Hudson

When I finally decided that my only hope was to go to college, I took an acting class, and once I walked onstage, I just knew I was home.

When someone asks if you're a god, you say YES!

The fulfilling of who you are and your purpose for being here is not found outside, it's trusting God to move you, to inspire you.

Once I committed to acting, this has been it.

It's a hard call, but I've no desire to live my children's lives. I think my job as a father is to protect them, to allow them a safe place to grow up and to teach them what I've learned.

The truths that are found in the Bible are universal truths. And it shapes who you are and guides you throughout your life.

But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?

You go down to Skid Row and you see literally hundreds of people and not just men, but women and children as well. It's really a tragedy that our society has come to that.

I find that the more I begin to look around, I see so much good that people do that goes unnoticed. So many wonderful things.

I'm old-school. I like action, but I want to see somebody fall in love. I want to see that life stuff.

I think it's important to find the joy in your work and the things that sort of renew that.

What celebrities hope is that people identify not so much that they're particularly special or different, but they identify with them. We represent life in general, the guy who does whatever.

For me, what's wonderful for me at this stage of my life is that I get to work with people I've admired for a long time.

What I get from my study of the Bible is that we're all in Christ, that we're all the same in God's eyes.