"Lesson learned: If a guy tells you you're his second choice, don't make him your first."

“Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.”

“It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.”

“I believe that I'm going to have a Grammy.”

Source : "Chris Tucker on Silver Linings Playbook and his intermittent film career". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. December 14, 2012.

“I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.”

“A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.”

Source : "Journal d'un poète"by Alfred de Vigny, (p. 32), 1949.

“I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.”

Source : "A Minute With: Mira Nair on Salaam Bombay". Interview with Shilpa Jamkhandikar, www.reuters.com. March 22, 2013.

“I have an unsatisfied desire to shoot well with a bow.”

“Do what you love and believe in, and work hard.”