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" I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore. "

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" The Bible says that all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord and are called according to his purpose. I believe that. Because I've seen it all work. "

" My family never went to a restaurant together; we never went to the movies together. Vacation, we never did that. "

" If you haven't forgiven someone, it does not hurt that person. They're sleeping at night. You're holding onto that, and all the damage is being done to you internally. "

" I don't do divas. I don't do entourages. I don't do the Hollywood crap. "

" The idea of Christ's love for us all is inspiring to me. "

" You don't try to do anything that Morgan Freeman does. He was the voice of God in a movie. That's Morgan Freeman! "

" 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. "

" The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving. "

" My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was trying to protect me from him as best she could, she took me everywhere with her, which gave me a tremendous amount of sensitivity to the things women go through. "

" The heart of who I am as a person and as a man is forgiveness, after forgiving my father for a lot of things that were done when I was child. "

" I don't think the dreams die - I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard. "

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

" 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. "

" Ever since I've been blessed with success, I've struggled a little with anonymity and even family. I've had people calling asking for money, and I have to ask them first, 'Are you working? Have you been trying to help yourself?' Then I feel like I can help. "

" 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. "

" If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money. "

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

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

" Very early on, when I started doing these plays and live shows, I would travel from city to city, and there were a million shows out there... so I wanted to step out among it, and I started putting my name above the title. "

" If you look at everything I do - even in 'Boo!' there's a message, and it's always 'faith, family, forgiveness.' That's the greatest gift that I've been given. I can get a message to the very people I grew up with, the millions who love what I do. "

" Being on the 'Alex Cross' set, and watching and learning about and paying attention to everything that was going on there, I realized, 'Here is a moment for me to learn.' "

" 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 look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller. "

" I've been doing television with TBS for quite some time, and it's been a great journey. "

" I had one request when I started doing the plays. My prayer was, 'God, let me do well enough to be able to take care of my mother.' I was able to do that 'til the day she died because of my audience. "

" I'm not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story. "

" If you look at 'The Have and the Have Nots,' I didn't want to write a show where everyone is great and wonderful and perfect. I wanted to write it so that you're not really sure who the haves are. You look at Hanna, and you see that she doesn't have much, but she has great faith. "

" You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher. "

" What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one. "