Redemption Jamie Foxx Quotes

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

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? ~ Jamie Foxx

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. ~ Jamie Foxx

I'm a southern gentleman. ~ Jamie Foxx

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. ~ Jamie Foxx

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. ~ Jamie Foxx

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. ~ Jamie Foxx

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

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. ~ Jamie Foxx

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

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. ~ Jamie Foxx

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. ~ Jamie Foxx

Now ballads, I can mess around and get up on somebody on a ballad. People ain't seen it yet, but I can mess around and get up in there. I've had Ruben Studdard up in my house, Brian McKnight, Tank. Every once in a while I throw down with them. ~ Jamie Foxx

You have a responsibility to your work, to your choices. Once you get to a certain level of quality and commitment, you don't want to go back and make Booty Call 7. ~ Jamie Foxx

It's so easy to play us guys that I hate to give away secrets to women because I know they'll use them. But OK, if you just simply don't give a guy the time of day, every once in awhile, it just makes us more like 'What do we do?' Men are developed to conquer. When we can't seem to conquer, we stay in it no matter what. ~ Jamie Foxx

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. ~ Jamie Foxx

All of us feel special inside to where we feel as if we are the best, unique, or blessed. of course this is true, our error in this thought process is we forget that all the other people and all living things are just as special as we feel about ourselve. ~ Jamie Foxx

As a kid, I was scared of losing my mind. In Terrell, Texas, where I grew up, there was a guy that would walk down the street talking to himself. And I used to watch him and feel uneasy. And there was a sanitarium where people would say, 'That's where all the crazy people go.' It really sort of frightened me. ~ Jamie Foxx

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

Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing surprises, and a clip here and there, because Quentin is hip-hop. A hip-hop artist will drop a single, leak something over here, and drop something over there 'cause he knows it's hot. He's on the spot with the way he does things. ~ Jamie Foxx

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. ~ Jamie Foxx

If I were an animal, I would be an eagle. ~ Jamie Foxx

When you sing R&B songs in front of an audience, you look out and there's 85% women. I think R&B music is sort of designed for a man singing to a woman. I don't sing it like the sexy thing, but sort of pseudo-sexy. We rally the women together because it's about being independent and things like that. ~ Jamie Foxx

My homies that are around me never give me that 'star pass.' I've hung out with some stars who are playing basketball and everyone let's them score all the baskets. Shooting pool, they let them make all the shots. My homies don't let me get away with that. ~ Jamie Foxx

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

There remains a degree of anti-black intellectualism in entertainment. Middle and upper-middle class blacks have often been portrayed as buffoons in popular culture; witness the characters of Carlton Banks on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' and Braxton P. Hartnabrig on 'The Jamie Foxx Show.' ~ John Ridley

I would say my grandmother would be like my personal god. ~ Jamie Foxx

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. ~ Jamie Foxx

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

An ideal movie would be, like - to get this to happen, I have to work so much harder - but imagine Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy ... Who else? Donald Faison. Directed by Steven Spielberg. That would be awesome. ~ Donald Faison

What's weird is when you meet a girl who is 23 and you are talking to her, even her voice is high-pitched, she's young. You ask her how old she is, she says, 'Twenty-three, how old are you?' and when I tell her I'm 41 it's like I've just told her I have cancer. It's, 'Oh my God, how long have you had that?' ~ Jamie Foxx

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. ~ Jamie Foxx

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. ~ Jamie Foxx

I wanna chase down Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, Will Smith. I would love to start my film career. ~ Shemar Moore

I loved a man who I couldn't love, who loved someone else but loved me more ... Love could kiss my ass ~ Jamie McGuire