Jamie Foxx Quotes (27 Quotes)


    Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles for living.

    As a kid, the first thing you got was your military men. You set yourself up in the sandbox and go to war. Then you grow up watching John Wayne movies and then 'Top Gun' and 'A Soldier's Story.' You get into them because they star your favorite actors. It's the absolute thrill of how war's depicted. The thought of violence is intriguing to kids. War is fascinating to young men, and attractive.

    Can I just tell you that I am having the ride of my life right now I wish I could take what I'm feeling right now and put it in the water system, and we would all love each other a whole lot more.

    I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling,

    Don't kill this guy. Don't kill him. We've got our fingers crossed.


    In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

    We can't wave a magic wand and get rid of any of these people's problems, but what they want is they want to be heard,

    I released an album then, and it didn't do anything. Everyone thought I was that funny dude.

    The reason you have to do this is you have to let them know that you're real, ... I had one guy say, 'It's about time we get some black celebrities down here.' I'm calling on all of them to come down here to see how it really is.

    I think that music is two things. It's either in the club or in the bedroom.

    It's good to be surrounded by black folks. Black folks are music.

    It's heavy. Heavy in a way that there's a real sense of danger, a real sense of what these guys go through as undercover cops.

    I look forward to working with the NAACP in bringing immediate and ongoing aid to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina was a heart attack that revealed a long history of social illnesses. You can't be human and watch all these different things go down and not do anything, ... People from all over the world are looking at these images and saying, wow we just really want to help. So at the end of the day it's all of us.

    Three 6 Mafia was in the house, baby. That was beautiful. To me, it was one of the most genuine moments of happiness. ... There's was the most felt.

    We didn't know we were being unpredictable with the decision we were making. I just looked at people like Chris Rock and Will Smith, and they had their slots of how they became successful. We did things off the beaten path.

    She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you.

    They trying to change the game on them, ... A lot of people have done movies in Miami, and movies in MIA are real bright. Movies in Miami are yellow and red and green. He's shooting a lot at night, trying to make it hot.

    I want to thank my daughter, who told me, 'If you don't win, Dad, you're still good,' ... who taught me how to act.

    With the first album, the timing wasn't right and it wasn't a good situation. The situation is perfect now. The movie set everything up and people are more accepting now. The good thing is that it's not forced. If people dig the music, it will do well, and if they don't -- well, I won't do an album for another 10 years.


    I hit one wrong note and he stopped, ... He said, 'Why'd you do that Don't do that. Don't hit wrong notes.' And I was like, 'Damn ... I'm just learning.' And he said, 'No, no, no ...don't hit wrong notes.'

    When I first shook Stanley Williams' hand, I knew that he was innocent and that we'd be connected until he was either executed or he died in San Quentin. I was disappointed by the way (court authorities) kept their distance because I don't think anybody wanted to get to know him. Once you did know him, you couldn't kill him.

    Since we're at the Met, we've got some opera that we have to sing. So we're going to do a little hip hop opera. It's going to be off the hook.

    People thought he was a jerk because he'd tell them to shut up, ... Really, if you can't see then there is no way to tune it out.


    This is war. You've got to be ready at any point and time.

    They got the boats blowing up, they blowing up buildings, ... They got people strapped with C-4. You got people lying in the middle of the street getting hit with Mack trucks. It's crazy.


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