Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver.
I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.
I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man.
The lack of facts holds you back. The odds are stacked against a weak mind.
Any man without a woman is incomplete, and vice-versa she's obsolete.
I stayed away from drugs, I never smoked a pipe. When I wanna get high, I smoke the mic. I never did white lines, I only write lines, and I ain't sniffin' nothing but the vapors from hype rhymes.
The five senses are all correlated, the sixth and seventh is how you elevate it.
I have never had great expectations of my performance or of a film. I try not to think about the outcome. If you look that far ahead, it sort of taints your choices as an actor. I try as hard as I can to believe that no one is ever going to see it and that it's not even a movie. Then you can allow yourself to bare more. Then, once a project is done, I tend to forget about it until it comes out.
But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.
I learn a lot with actors that I don't think are good. Every experience shapes you. I've had experiences with actresses - and I say actresses because there's just a woman thing - that have achieved what she's achieved, by means that I can't understand.