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" I'm trying to make enough money where I can be financially independent and be able to go and just pursue that thing that everybody really needs, just pursue my family and the cause of my family. "

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" No, most of the decisions that I make with regard to taking roles, I just look for something that's challenging, something that I think I can accomplish, you know. "

Terrence Howard

Think

You

Decisions

" The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife. "

" The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish. "

" My future's about trying to be a better man. "

" We call the Creator father, because we rely upon Him to protect us, guide us, feed us, keep us warm, to discipline us and all those things. I try to take my cue from the Creator, with regard to my children. "

" You just drop a character like this that and the other and it's done. "

" So I show appreciation for the little gifts that have been handed to me. "

Terrence Howard

Appreciation

Gifts

" We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there's another side that can be as harsh and as ugly as the darkest thing you could imagine seeing. "

" The only thing that really matters in the initial part of my career, the worst mistake I've ever made was try to do things to please the audience thinking how the audience is going to respond if I do this. "

" Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor. "

" I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power. "

" I just wanted to be a scientist. "

" As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm. "

" I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know. "

Terrence Howard

Watch

Know

" I am an engineer, but what I find important and necessary is that you just learn things as you go along. "

" Every role you play is literally - and I've said this before - every single role that you play, the only way you can connect to that character is because that was a piece of you that was scattered around that yard, almost like we got caught up in some whirlwind. "

" When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they're making honey in there. "

" I ad lib. I've gotta bring my own into it. "

Terrence Howard

Own

My Own

" In every person we meet there's this little piece of God in them and that's who you talk to. And that's the only person that you allow to talk to you. When something else is speaking, you walk away from that. If it's not good, if it's not love, you walk away from it. "

" I don't think President Obama has been that revolutionary in reaching out to ethnic communities. President Reagan did a lot for the black community that people don't realize. "

" I don't have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job. "

" And I'm very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in film, gain the benefit of my education, and be thankful that I was able to break into my craft as an actor. "

" And when I stopped doing that and started thinking about what feels natural and what feels right to me and started pleasing myself, then it became good. "

" Don't just view me as an actor. "

Terrence Howard

Just

View

" And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula. "

" My life's experiences, I've always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what's going to happen oftentimes before it happened when it's involving me. "

Terrence Howard

Know

Life

" Every little job becomes a dream, and you don't recall it anymore, and maybe you might have a deja vu moment, but it's like something you dreamed earlier. "

Terrence Howard

Dream

Job

" And right now I may just be living inside the heart of the body, and I one day hope to move to the brain. "

" All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists. "

" The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can. "