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" I love to see a woman in high-heeled shoes. There's something about the curve of the feet up the leg to the butt that's really, really wonderful, and the right pair of shoes can give you the right silhouette. "

" I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you. "

" People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to. "

" I have very simple tastes. An ex-girlfriend used to tell me I have the palate of a kid because there are only five or six foods that I love. And if you rotate them on a regular basis, that's all I need to eat - like arugula, spinach, and grilled chicken. "

" I want a lot of people to see my movies. More black people. More white people. I want to make that connection. "

" Did you know you can't say 'Jesus' in a sitcom? They told me that, and I was like, You gotta be kiddin' me. If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. "

" You close the door on me and tell me I can't, I'm gonna find a way to get in. "

" We are all allowed to support whoever we'd like to in this country. That's the greatest part about being an American - one of them, that is; you know what I mean? "

" I'm not afraid to have a character say, 'I am a Christian,' or, 'I believe in God,' because I think they represent real people on this Earth. "

" Macaroni and cheese was my mother's special dish. She'd also make jambalaya and dirty rice and bake a ham that would be incredible. And greens. But if you were looking for vegetables and healthy things, there weren't a lot of those. "

" I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive. "

" My life has always been - there's never been a middle. Either I had or I didn't. Either I was up or I was down. "

" Madea is a cross between my mother and my aunt. She's the type of grandmother that was on every corner when I was growing up. "

" I knew that love was around. I truly believe my mother loved me. But feeling it all the time? I didn't. "

" My first show was called 'I Know I've Been Changed' in '92. I tried to do this show for years and years. It kept failing over and over and over again. Every time I went out to do the show, nobody showed up. I was like, 'What is this about?' "

" I didn't want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I've tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter opposite of that. And it has served not only the art well, but I think the audience well. "

" I've been on 'Oprah' a dozen times, and cried once. "

" I've been trying to learn to ski for years, but there's something about being 6-foot-5 and falling that's not appealing. "

" There's this great thing called the 'Chitlin' Circuit,' which I started my shows on and back in the day when, you know, Ray Charles and Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington, they couldn't get into white establishments, so they went on this circuit and toured. They were huge stars in their own community, you know, and that's pretty much my same story. "

" I have a fear of tubes and tunnels. Going through any tunnel causes me great anxiety. "

" Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life. "

" I think that with everything I've done, in the end, whoever the central character is, they would find a way to forgive, because that's really important to me. "

" After Obama became president, I realized that black people could not have put him in the White House - it had to be a collective effort of everybody in the country. "

" I remember being a kid and praying in the hell of my house to have somebody love me and somebody that I could love. "

" I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood. "

" I'm not interested in doing 'Star Wars.' It's an amazing movie, but that's not my gift. I tell the stories that I tell that relate to the people who love what I do. That is the place and the path that I know I am supposed to be on. The minute I try and go do something else, it will be amazing to watch how quickly that don't work. "

" My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work. "

" Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She's an amazing woman. "