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" Some of my friends don't have a cell phone. Patti LaBelle doesn't have a cell phone. "

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" There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly. "

" I moved on to a nursing agency as a receptionist just to get a job, and ended up managing it, which led to me opening my own - say your mom is sick and needs someone to help her, then you call something like what I had: a home health agency. "

" I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff. "

" Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting. "

" I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life growing up. "

" I'm not Tyler Perry. I'm not Dino De Laurentis. I think it's a bit much to put one's name in front of the film. It makes me uncomfortable. "

" I'm always more comfortable and in a good place when I'm with friends because I know they trust me. I'm able to get great performances from people who trust me. "

" I don't know - I haven't seen any of my movies after I finish them. I leave the editing room; I don't go back. "

" I think this last film I finished, 'The Butler,' is the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire. "

" I started casting. I cast music videos, but I kept getting fired from jobs because I was iconoclastic in my ways of casting. "

" I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices. "

" I wanted to make a black 'Dynasty.' "

" Rarely do celebrities and actors speak up for what they believe in. "

" I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that. "

" I definitely caught the acting bug, but that lasted for about two seconds when I found my way to L.A. and found that my talents were better suited behind the cameras. "

" At 19, I was in the streets making money. I was surviving. "

" I was always in trouble. I was mischievous. And movies were always a part of my world. "

" 'Precious' is so not P.C. What I learned from doing the film is that even though I am black, I'm prejudiced. I'm prejudiced against people who are darker than me. "

" I believe in life that you know that everything prepares you for the next thing - whether it's a hit, whether it's not a hit, whether it's a... your failures are your accomplishments because it makes you prepared for whatever it is that you are going to do next. "

" People enjoy making fun of people who are famous; they love putting people down. "

" When you have a lot of siblings, you always do something to feel special. "

" Most of my friends are dead. I watched friends die in my arms at 5, 6, 8. When I grew up, the rest of my friends died of AIDS. "

" My mom had five kids. And she came home after working three jobs, and I'd rub her feet. We'd all rub her feet. We were lucky to get any time with her. "

" I think that, as African-Americans, oftentimes we have to put ourselves on pedestals as opposed to really looking at ourselves and trying to understand ourselves and become better people. We always have to be on pedestals. "

" I worked at Warner Bros. for a while. I was the head of the minority talent casting. It was like pre-Spike Lee and post-blaxploitation era. "

" My mission is to let black kids know that their dreams can happen. "

" When you're paying everybody nothing, I mean, they have homes to pay for. And my movies are like putting on theater. Nicole Kidman is at craft services, and John Cusack is moving furniture; there are no egos. The only ego is the story. "

" I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it. "

" The ratings board is completely different when it comes to film versus the television arena. "