Jamie Foxx famous quotes

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.
-- Jamie Foxx

#Gymnastics #Django #Safe

Doc Rivers been hoarse since birth
-- Jamie Foxx

#Rivers #Birth

Black people are the most talented people in the world,
-- Jamie Foxx

#People #Black #World

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

#Eye #Long #Looks

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.
-- Jamie Foxx

#Thinking #Black #Hollywood

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.
-- Jamie Foxx

#Real #Hands #Racism

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

#Growing Up #Destiny #Thinking

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

#Art #People #Inspire

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.
-- Jamie Foxx

#Names #Eric #Bishops

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

#Everyday #Negative #Why Not

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.
-- Jamie Foxx

#Grandmother #Hair #Black

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.
-- Jamie Foxx

#Beautiful #College #Piano

I had that upbringing. Of watching 'Bonanza,' watching 'Hee Haw,' which both black and white would watch. I rode horses. I did gun spinning as a kid. I do these things.
-- Jamie Foxx

#Horse #Kids #Black And White

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.
-- Jamie Foxx

#Singing #Trying #Helping

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

#People #House #Tanks

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

#Character #Men #People

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.
-- Jamie Foxx

#Want #Actresses #Cameras

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

#Life #Water #Feelings

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

#Girl #Cancer #Talking

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.
-- Jamie Foxx

#Thinking #Years #Play

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

#Dark #Interesting #Acting

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

#Sexy #Song #Independent

You are what you repeatedly do when things get hard.
-- Jamie Foxx

Also, I think having that comic gene kind of makes you look at things in a different way. If you take yourself so seriously, eventually you end up one of those people having a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on their lives. You see them drawing the curtains and they don't even realize that they've kind of drifted off somewhere.
-- Jamie Foxx

#Thinking #Drawing #People

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

#Artist #Hip Hop #Way

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

#Christmas #Valentine #Shopping

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

#Animal #Eagles #Would Be

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

#Grandmother #Would Be #My Grandmother

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.
-- Jamie Foxx

#I Love You #Dream #Sleep

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

#Black #Sensitive #Folks

Every single thing in my life is built around race.
-- Jamie Foxx

#Race #Life Is

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

#Heart #Broken #Guy

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.
-- Jamie Foxx

#Mother #Daughter #Men

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

#Winning #Thinking #Rays

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

#Thank You #Beautiful #Giving

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.
-- Jamie Foxx

#Fun #Grandmother #College

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

#Sports #Athlete #Actors

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

#Want #Radio #Young

I'm a southern gentleman.
-- Jamie Foxx

#Southern #Gentleman #Southern Gentleman

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

#Daughter #Mother #Made

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

#Men #Perfect #Degrees

I think Prince should open up a little more to other artists. Just because we love Prince. Especially the old stuff - we love him to death. But if he opened up he would be something to deal with. Imagine Kanye West producing a Prince track? It would be banoodles!
-- Jamie Foxx

#Thinking #Artist #Track

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

#Eight #Piano #People

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.
-- Jamie Foxx

#Doe #Violence #Influence

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.'
-- Jamie Foxx

#Writing #Winning #Thinking

My Grandmother would say, 'Make sure you look good. Make sure you speak well. Make sure you remain that Southern gentleman that I've taught you to be.'
-- Jamie Foxx

#Grandmother #Grandparent #Southern

I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior. Whether that's the truth or not, I'm definitely going out there with my mic and my shield to declare, 'I am here to save R&B.' I will have the people saying, 'Sir, there is a man at the musical gates saying he is here to save R&B.
-- Jamie Foxx

#Men #People #Musical

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

#Daughter #Dad #Winning

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

#Years #Two #Holocaust

In looking at Hollywood and its structure, the director controls the medium, and I want to be in control of certain things. I want to be able to get my own ideas and my own feelings out there, and the only way to do that is to be behind the camera.
-- Jamie Foxx

#Ideas #Feelings #Cameras

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.
-- Jamie Foxx

#Phones #Forever #Cameras

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

#Grandma #Men #Piano

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

#Beach #Miami #Hills

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

#Basketball #Stars #Giving

Well, the album 'Intuition' is out and just went platinum officially. So I think to have the music doing what it's doing right now, man, it's the ultimate. Nobody is really selling records out there but we are at a million records and we dropped it at Christmas, so we are just trying to get that thing to like two million, you know.
-- Jamie Foxx

#Christmas #Men #Thinking

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

#White #People #Racist

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.
-- Jamie Foxx

#Reality #People #Magic

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.
-- Jamie Foxx

#Jobs #Responsibility #Men

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

#Decision #Decision Making #Made

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

#Party #Men #New Orleans

I play a slave. How black is that? I have to wear chains. How whack is that? But don’t worry. I get free. I save my wife and I kill all the white people in the movie. How great is that?
-- Jamie Foxx

#White #Play #Wife

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

#Mean #Guy #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,
-- Jamie Foxx

#Giving #Honor #Church

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

#Success #Commitment #Responsibility

Yeah, anytime anybody has a kid, you know how you feel when you have a kid, you look at the world differently because your kid's in the world now. When it's just you, whatever happens happens but now you pay more attention to political things. You pay more attention to things because your daughter or your son has to deal with these circumstances.
-- Jamie Foxx

#Mother #Daughter #Kids

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

#Funny #Musician #Want