Here’s where I stand, listen, I am a conservative person, i believe in our Second Amendment rights but there has to be something sensible between both parties that people who [want] to get guns can get training and shouldn’t be on [watch] lists… [We need to find] some common ground while protecting our Second Amendment rights.

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I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.

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If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers.

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That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

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Normal is just a cycle on the washing machine.

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You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.

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I don't like driving very much. That makes me very unhappy, because I scream a lot in the car, but other than that, life is actually pretty good.

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Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I've visited Africa, and I've got news for everyone: I'm not an African.

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Really, darling, it's a no-brainer. You know, I understand not everybody is for gay marriage. But if you're not for gay marriage, don't marry a gay person. That's what I say

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If You don't like Gay Marriage, Don't Marry a Gay Person.

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I don't really view communism as a bad thing.

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If you're not sure how you feel about same-sex marriage, go and meet some of the families and see what they're looking for. Once you take it out of the caricature of what gay people are and what gay marriage is, and put it in the reality of family and what these folks are fighting for, it's really amazing.

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The people who can be helping to make movies that have blacks and Latinos and women and all that - that movie doesn't come to you. Because the idea is that there's no place for black movies.

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There are times when I haven't been proud of America or really proud. But there have been times that I've been incredibly proud of the country.

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It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power -

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I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

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I have a production company, and we work with reality TV producers 44 Blue. They asked if we'd like to get involved. When they explained that it was the first transgender modeling agency, we said, "Yeah, of course!"

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I have the strangest time to get cast in anything. 'Ghost' was the same thing. Six months I had to wait for them to decide they had seen everybody possible. Why not? What limits me? I'm black? Oh, am I black?

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It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.

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I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done.

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[On lightweight movies:] Fun movies. They were never meant to cure cancer, only to take away the mind.

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