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"41 Jamie Foxx Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 13 December 1967 | Actor | Comedian | Film producer |

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

Blackness Everyday Everyday Life Life
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She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you.

About Because Dreams Go
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You know what? I never really factor Hollywood into anything. I'm a black actor, so I can't really control what Hollywood thinks. I gotta go do my thing, and my jokes have got to be funny. Whatever I do has got to be great.

Actor Anything Black Control
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When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

Born Destination Destiny Different
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I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account.

Account AIDS Angry Celebrity
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The most interesting thing about acting is when you go to the dark places, that's a lot of energy. When you go to the happiest places, it's also a lot of energy.

About Acting Also Dark
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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.

Actor All My Life Athlete Been
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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.

Anything Back Cannot Does
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Every single thing in my life is built around race.
Around Built Every Every Single Thing
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As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.

Always Black Folks Person
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Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery?

About Because Every Holocaust
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Connecting with my daughter is the most important thing in my life - the priority. I want to be a man who shows up for her. I want to have such a big influence on her, so that she knows she can call me about anything, which she does.

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

About Great Just Never
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I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

Age Be A Man Had Handling
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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.

Bee Black Did Experience
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To be the leading man it's about the celebrity and the looks, and it's tough to do that. People who do it great are people like Tom Cruise and Will Smith - they're built for that. I ain't. I'm more of a character guy.

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

Anything Anything Else Else Funny
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If I'm in the studio, I'm completely on music. I try to go to that place and that's the toughest thing for me to do. When I'm with other musicians, sometimes I go back to, almost like, childhood, because that's what I always wanted to be.

Almost Always Back Because
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I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.

Act Am Because Everything
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So there is not a lot about me that you don't know other than that I play table tennis. I'm great, I'm great at table tennis! You will look at me and go, 'How does that dude know how to play that well?'

About Does Dude Go
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I would say my grandmother would be like my personal god.
God Grandmother Like Personal
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A lot of people may not know how competitive it is to play classical music, because when you think about it, the music that you're playing is music that's been here for years. And all you're trying to do is improve upon it when you play.

About Because Been Classical
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When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we don't get a chance to get to it. Myself, I really want to get into it. I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera.

Actor Actress Business Camera
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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.

About Arts Chance Everything
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With 'Django Unchained,' when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.

Amount Dealing Difficulty Flips
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If I were an animal, I would be an eagle.
Animal Eagle Were Would
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Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic.

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

Daughter Had Made Music
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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.

Been Blink Earth Eye
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I remember meeting President Obama and looking at him, thinking, 'Damn, this dude is really our president. He really went out and did it!' If you look at stories like that, and other stories that I'm sure you could compare to, it's just about freeing your mind and taking those guards down.

About Compare Could Damn
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When you look at Michael Jackson, there's nobody who loves him in that family, nobody. If they did, they'd tell him he didn't have to do all that in order to be famous. All he has to do is keep doing his music and be himself. Michael's been a little touched for about 20 years, but somebody needs to pull him aside and tell him they love him.

About Aside Been Did
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Stand-up is my heart and now I get a chance to do that and the music altogether. That's going to be great. I'm trying to be the Sammy Davis Jr. of 2005. I'm planning on going out with Cedric the Entertainer because he's got that musical bone, too.

Altogether Because Bone Chance
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I don't know if I'm built for marriage.
Built Know Marriage If
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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.

About Because Eight Helps
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I have about 20 to 25 platonic relationships with women all across the board from professional to artistic and they always give little clues on what they like.

About Across Always Artistic
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I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.

Any Career Classical College
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I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing.

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

Got Hear Nobody Radio
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It's hard to be a celebrity nowadays. It's not about your track record anymore. If you have a great movie, you're good. If not, people are ready to write you off. I think the only ones who are really winning are people like Will Smith. People go, 'Oh, it's Will Smith. I've got to see him, whatever he's in.'

About Anymore Celebrity Go
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But don't get caught out there looking goofy. It's weird. When you do something that stinks, it's going to last forever on the Internet. There's always someone in the audience with a camera phone and if you're not 100%, you're going to be watching yourself on YouTube.

Always Audience Camera Caught
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Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.

Actually Beautiful Because Cello
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Jamie Foxx Quotes & Sayings