Jamie Foxx Quotes

I want to be the person who eventually doesn’t have to be in front of the camera. I can be behind the camera and really change things cinematically, and this is giving me an opportunity to do something behind the camera, which I really want to maximize.

Now ballads, I can mess around and get up on somebody on a ballad. People ain’t seen it yet, but I can mess around and get up in there. I’ve had Ruben Studdard up in my house, Brian McKnight, Tank. Every once in a while I throw down with them.

Mike Tyson’s life is one of the most amazing American stories.

And perfect happiness? Man, that’s a…the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.

If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we’re living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it.

My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.

Also, I think having that comic gene kind of makes you look at things in a different way. If you take yourself so seriously, eventually you end up one of those people having a ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign on their lives. You see them drawing the curtains and they don’t even realize that they’ve kind of drifted off somewhere.

Nobody wants to hear R&B. It’s sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.

Black people are the most talented people in the world.

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

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.

You have a responsibility to your work, to your choices. Once you get to a certain level of quality and commitment, you don’t want to go back and make Booty Call 7.