Hill Harper Quotes

It's important for someone like me - who's known Obama for 20 years - to speak the truth. I know him to be a Christian man. I know him to be one of the greatest patriots.

All of us have to figure out our own passion, our own journey. Follow your heart.

I don't want the George Clooney lifelong bachelorhood. If I found the right person, I would commit in a minute.

We all have inherited so many types of fears, whether they're race-based, culture-based, gender-based, age-based, family-based. And then we get comfortable with these fears.

Credit card interest payments are the dumbest money of all.

'The Conversation' will hopefully touch on issues that will move people to want to strengthen communication and look to each other for solutions.

My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute mentor for me.

Whenever there's an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to encourage other writers to write and encourage folks to read more and get connected to it in a personal way, it's a positive thing.

Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.

Money is simply a tool to give you choices.

You can live a healthy lifestyle and do the best to be aware of your body and conscious, and that's what I attempt to do.

I've made money in real estate, hotel, and restaurant investments.

People always want to think that because you're not from a certain circumstance, you can't relate. That's ridiculous.

Since I'm in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, 'Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?'

I'm really proud of the characters I've been able to play. Certainly, playing the character on 'CSI' as Dr. Sherman Hawkes is a wonderful stereotype-busting role.

I'm not the biggest star in the world, but I do have a platform, and if I can use that platform to help somebody else, why wouldn't I?

Roles make the actor.

You're writing your life as you go - the question becomes, how do you want to write your life?

Screening for colon cancer can stop cancer in its tracks.

If you have a debt issue or credit card issue, start dealing with it. If you have a tax issue, don't just say, 'I'm not going to file.' There are ways to deal with these things, but you must communicate with your creditors, whether it's a credit card company or tax department.

I think, without question, the way someone plays sports shows something about inherently who they are, you know?

There's a wealth gap that is happening, and that is all over the world, you know? The rich are getting richer and holding a higher percentage of money or wealth that's out there.

So many of our young women today, they're growing up without a father, but they're still thirsty for that and desiring positive male love.

If you can't get excited about living life, then what are you doing?

The thing about our country, Americans, and New Yorkers in particular, we all want to help. There's real folks who want to help. The problem is, they don't know how. They don't know how to get involved.

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.

For me, self-esteem-building and confidence-building is the foundation for anything that we do, whether you want to be a writer, a painter, or a entrepreneur.

Without writers, none of the entertainment would exist. It starts with writers. Writers are the most important piece of the entire puzzle.

People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental.

You're in a situation where you have limited education opportunities, you don't have any money, you can't get a job; what are you going to do? You're going to go back to this criminal network that you actually made while you were in prison.

I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.

It's heartening when people hear for the first time that their vote really matters.

Let me tell you, if you're ever making a decision and the principle reason you'll do it is because of money, then it is absolutely the incorrect decision.

I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to stay and build healthy relationships has had on the black family and black children.

You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.

Gabrielle Union is my best friend.

On the male side of my family, cancer has been very insidious, and so I'm just attempting to live a lifestyle that doesn't follow in their footsteps.

At the end of a down day on Wall Street, we all need to be able to sleep peacefully at night. That comfort won't come from our bank balance.

What I've found in doing research is that men want a relationship that feels fun. In other words, they want a relationship that has qualities or elements of their same-sex relationships - just like women do, too.

When I was dealing with cancer, I was working on a book about finances. I realized that the same methodology that the doctors were using to cure me, you could use to cure your finances. Health and wealth are so linked, it's amazing.

My favorite vacation spot is a beautiful beach. I've been to many, many beaches on many continents: Mombasa, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados, Mexico and the U.S. What's beautiful about beach communities is for whatever reason, they feel like vacation to me.

Intimacy can be about holding someone's hand. It could be about stroking their hair.

People listen for cues - when they are searching for a decision, they look to people they know. Young people can be apathetic in certain ways unless they hear from someone they like and admire about why they should be engaged and involved. If someone you love is doing a rally or concert, you may be engaged to register.

Part of the problem I find with money books is that there's this whole set of money books that make you feel almost guilty to spend a dollar.

Dr. King said, 'We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.' Which says to me no matter how well I may be doing in Hollywood, if a young brother or sister in Louisiana, the South Bronx, the South Side of Chicago, South Central Los Angeles - is not doing well, then I'm not doing very well.

I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure.

Many of us are walking around living smaller lives than we're meant to live. Don't allow yourself to dream smaller than you were meant to dream.

There's nothing wrong with wanting a partner and doing the things to have one. To protect ourselves, we have to say, 'I don't need one.'

Voting is an individual, personal thing.

I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction.

The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first.

Love is an energy. You can feed it to people, and they in turn feed it to others, and eventually it comes back.

I say 'date potential.' The reason why is no matter who you date, anyway, five years from now, you're going to be different, and he's going to be different. The key is to really find somebody that you can grow with that you can change with, evolve with and that you can be partners with.

The wealth cure is looking at your life step by step - making a diagnosis and saying, 'Am I using money or is money using me?'

I think the number one safe haven where people put their money is to invest in yourself first.

I've been trying to make a difference as an actor. I want to play characters that move people, have them look at their lives differently, or give them an escape.

On 'CSI: NY,' the audience knew I was a really good guy, and I caught the bad guy.

You deserve a great life. I want to see you become unreasonably happy. And you can. And you will.

Obviously, this whole 'no child left behind' idea is more rhetoric than actual practice.

The media is convincing people that if you have that 'next thing,' that diamond, the right car, then you'd be happier.

I've done romantic comedy, and I don't get to flex that muscle often.

You can't be free if the cost of being you is too high.

Fundamentally, we all want the same thing. We want to love. We want to be loved, and we want to matter.

Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office.

My friend is a former race car driver, so he races for Mercedes, and I root for him. I have a car that I love to race, I'll take it to the track.

I'm not telling anyone, 'Quit your job and be homeless to go for your dream.'

You never know what's going on in someone's life. You never know what's really going on behind what they present.

People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government.

The longer you hold a dollar, the longer you hold money, the more valuable it becomes over time. So the younger you are, the more ability you have to hold money longer term.