Quotes About Self

I don't really consider myself a black man in Hollywood. I live in Brooklyn... and on purpose.

I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.

I'm self-opinionated, and I have a sense of self. I can be brutal with agents and have been.

I like working emotions that can take you beyond your life. And yet you have to resist them in order remain within your life. Otherwise, you're burned. I like that fight. It's more of a fight with yourself.

It's not every day you see a bus with your own face on it.

I always say that what's between you and your success is yourself.

Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.

I get to define for myself what being a success is.

There's the push and pull you put on yourself and the push and pull the world puts on you. Most of the time, the world's going to win out, because it's just logical that you should be more successful and more motivated. You can always be more.

What I want to represent for my daughters is that you can always stay true to yourself and still be successful.

I think I'm one of those people that kind of thinks everybody's got an identity, and maybe that's the core of their personality. But I think we change enough over the years that it's like a succession of different people.

Fame is definitely a monster: it can suck you in and spit you out and change you. The biggest challenge is to remain yourself regardless of what people say about you.

I'm a terrible actor. I would suck in films! The only way I would do well is if I was playing myself, which is what I did in my career.

Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.

If we say, 'The government sucks,' we're kind of saying that we suck.

What sucks the most is when you can't even keep a promise to yourself.

In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk.

I don't think anything can prepare you for a crew to come in and actually film you as yourself. It's kind of frightening to think that all of a sudden people are going to know how you are, and how you act on a day-to-day basis.

A lot of times, I'd be styled and, like, wearing a t-shirt I wouldn't ever wear. All the sudden, there's this image of you, and you're like, 'Hold on, wait.'

You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.

I can't just suddenly become 'Little Peace and Love Jair'... I've got to carry on being the same person.

I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I'm a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I'm not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn't exist.

That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.

A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.