Can thought be silent?
But when you become a slave to a public persona and don’t feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield and it shouldn’t come at the expense of your self-worth.
Because of my job, my hair gets played with a lot on set, so I try to give it little bit of breathing space when Im not working.
I like being free to take on any project that inspires me and to trust that the work will speak for itself.
From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.
To play Cleopatra on Broadway would just be incredible.
I try to put myself into whatever character I play.
Like I tell people they wind up having short term pleasure and long term pain. I'm a tell what Minister Louis Farrakhan said, "Black people ain't poor, they just don't spend wisely" and that's the truth.
It's sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is.
I'm not the kind of person that's so self-confident that I would ever think I had recorded anything great. I know that whenever we finish an album and turn it in, I know that in my deepest heart of hearts that we did the best that we could. Only time goes on to tell what I will think of it 10 years later or if people will listen to it forever or if people will get tired of it.
I'm gonna say that I have followed every presidential campaign since the campaign of President [John F. ] Kennedy in 1960.