Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles for living. (Jamie Foxx)
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. (Jamie Foxx)
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. (Jamie Foxx)
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, (Jamie Foxx)
In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness? (Jamie Foxx)
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, (Jamie Foxx)
I released an album then, and it didn't do anything. Everyone thought I was that funny dude. (Jamie Foxx)
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. (Jamie Foxx)
I think that music is two things. It's either in the club or in the bedroom. (Jamie Foxx)
It's good to be surrounded by black folks. Black folks are music. (Jamie Foxx)
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. (Jamie Foxx)
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. (Jamie Foxx)
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. (Jamie Foxx)
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. (Jamie Foxx)