Quotes About Acceptance

If offered, I'll definitely do an item number. I don't think there is anything wrong in it.

I don't judge people who are in item numbers.

I have gained so much more from my experiences of being open and loving humanity rather than being jaded and being closed-off.

Some kid who thinks he's cool can say, 'Hey, I'm down with Jah.' It's the same thing as saying, 'I'm down with God.' If it's easier for you to relate that way, then cool.

Jah is love, or God, whichever way you might accept it.

Being in jail, it's humbled me in a way I never imagined.

Even in Jamaica, your own country, coming into youth cricket you need to be from an upscale high school or have a light skin. As you get older you get used to the culture. My club, Lucas Cricket Club, was the only one to accept black people back in the day.

Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.

Gays and lesbians should have the same rights as anybody else, and when they're in Jamaica, they do have the same rights.

Obviously, I don't mind if James looks at women. He's a man, women are hot.

There comes a time in every man's life when he realises he will never be James Bond.

My wife Jane left me for another man. Then I fell in love with a bloke. I have been gay ever since.

I play a nobody in Japan.

It's just that, when I'm in Japan I could foretell to a certain degree what would be accepted, so I certainly don't come up with any crazy arrangements.

I say the same thing that I've said for decades now, which is: don't go over to Japan trying to change it, thinking that you know better. Go there trying to understand.

America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.

I was born in France, but I would have been happy to have been born in Senegal or in Romania or Japan. I don't care. This planet is both so small and so big, but I'm part of it.

One job I did turn down was 'How I Met Your Mother.' My character was 'creepy gay guy.' That was the character. The script said, 'Creepy gay guy gets in elevator every day with Jason Segel character and he's just being creepy.'

I listen to jazz, pop, rock, R&B. It really doesn't matter to me.

When I was coming up, a lot of serious jazz players couldn't stand funk.

Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.

I don't like being jealous.

Feeling jealous doesn't make you a terrible person.

You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.