Jamie Foxx Quotes

Black people are the most talented people in the world,

Being just an actor, sometimes people are like, "Hey, man, we don't wanna see you no more, in front of the camera," and I don't want that.

I wish I could take what I'm feeling right now and put it in the water system so everybody could drink it and we would all love each other.

You guys have so much energy. I threw a party in Toronto and there were, like, 4,000 people who couldn't get in.

In L.A. you can hide. I can hide at the beach, hide up in the hills. [In Miami] everybody is looking at you.

Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic.

(I get to) kill all the white people ... How great is that?

We can't retract the decisions we've made, we can only affect the decisions we're going to make from here.

We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

I think girls have to play a little hard to get because we come with so much bravado.

What we do in New Orleans, man - we party!

And perfect happiness? Man, that's a ... the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.

I don't know if I'm built for marriage.

As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.

I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.

Every single thing in my life is built around race.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior.

Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.

I want to thank my daughter, who told me, 'If you don't win, Dad, you're still good,' ... who taught me how to act.

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

I love music. I've always wanted to do music, even when I started out as a comedian.

It's like church over here. It's like church in here. First of all, give an honor to God and our Lord and Savior Barack Obama,

You are what you repeatedly do when things get hard.

Nobody wants to hear R&B. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.

We can't wave a magic wand and get rid of any of these people's problems, but what they want is they want to be heard.

If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we're living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it.

If I fail as Jamie Foxx, I'll just change my name and come back as something else.

I'm a southern gentleman.

Yeah, the sitcom world is dead. It's all reality.

My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

If I were an animal, I would be an eagle.

Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.

I would say my grandmother would be like my personal god.

Lil Wayne is a music god!!!!

Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.

Doc Rivers been hoarse since birth

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

I am a comedian and you guys know whatever I say, I don't mean any of it.

A woman's posterior is the key to my heart.

When your movie is hot, your options are crazy.