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" I love making films, but the best roles are hard to come by. "

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" Obviously, this whole 'no child left behind' idea is more rhetoric than actual practice. "

" When I'm acting, that's all I'm doing. When I'm not acting, I'm not thinking about acting. If I'm writing, I'm just writing. "

" The thing about our country, Americans, and New Yorkers in particular, we all want to help. There's real folks who want to help. The problem is, they don't know how. They don't know how to get involved. "

" Here's the deal: I believe - and I attempt to live my life this way - we all have more time than we think we do. We all waste so much time. "

" Gabrielle Union is my best friend. "

" When I get stopped by the police, I keep my hands on the wheel. I'm not going to move. "

" I don't want the George Clooney lifelong bachelorhood. If I found the right person, I would commit in a minute. "

" Whenever there's an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to encourage other writers to write and encourage folks to read more and get connected to it in a personal way, it's a positive thing. "

" I'm not telling anyone, 'Quit your job and be homeless to go for your dream.' "

" Fundamentally, we all want the same thing. We want to love. We want to be loved, and we want to matter. "

" No matter how bad something gets, no matter where you come from, you can achieve anything. I really do believe that. "

" I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure. "

" My friend is a former race car driver, so he races for Mercedes, and I root for him. I have a car that I love to race, I'll take it to the track. "

" Part of the problem I find with money books is that there's this whole set of money books that make you feel almost guilty to spend a dollar. "

" We're living in a time, unfortunately, where, you know, a lot of young men, particularly young men of color, being raised by single mothers. And their mothers so desperately want to connect with them, but I found, in talking with a lot of young men, that sometimes it's difficult. "

" People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental. "

" Since I'm in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, 'Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?' "

" The wealth cure is looking at your life step by step - making a diagnosis and saying, 'Am I using money or is money using me?' "

" My first two books, 'Letters to a Young Brother' and 'Letters to a Young Sister,' were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading. "

" People always want to think that because you're not from a certain circumstance, you can't relate. That's ridiculous. "

" If you can't get excited about living life, then what are you doing? "

" My undergraduate studies at Brown and graduate degrees from Harvard prepared me for a multifaceted career as an actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist. "

" I think the number one safe haven where people put their money is to invest in yourself first. "

" What's interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the 'Manifest Your Destiny' foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire people to live out their dreams, live out their destiny. "

" I would suggest that folks who have a platform of so-called celebrity, to the extent that they don't use that platform, or if they just use it for their own self-aggrandizement, it is certainly fed in a way that it goes to waste. "

" I'm really proud of the characters I've been able to play. Certainly, playing the character on 'CSI' as Dr. Sherman Hawkes is a wonderful stereotype-busting role. "

" There are so many actors that I meet that don't act enough. Definitely take class, definitely train - that's the most important thing you do. Build your craft. Become better. "

" I say 'date potential.' The reason why is no matter who you date, anyway, five years from now, you're going to be different, and he's going to be different. The key is to really find somebody that you can grow with that you can change with, evolve with and that you can be partners with. "

" Money is important. It is an important resource to have to help us build the life we want, but we overvalue it. "