Jamie Foxx Quotes

On wearing prosthetic eyelids which made him blind in Ray: "After six hours of being blind, you lose the sense of how a person is physically. It was amazing to hear the little buzzing voices all around you."

"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."

"I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior. Whether that's the truth or not, I'm definitely going out there with my mic and my shield to declare, 'I am here to save R&B.' I will have the people saying, 'Sire, there is a man at the musical gates saying he is here to save R&B.'"

"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."

"You know what? I never really factor Hollywood into anything. I'm a black actor, so I can't really control what Hollywood thinks. I gotta go do my thing, and my jokes have got to be funny. Whatever I do has got to be great."

"Because I'm a Shaq fan."

"In L.A. you can hide. I can hide at the beach, hide up in the hills. [In Miami] everybody is looking at 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 released an album then, and it didn't do anything. Everyone thought I was that funny dude."

"Some say that sex is overrated but they just ain't doin' it right!"

"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."

"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."

"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."

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