Mike Tyson's life is one of the most amazing American stories. Jamie Foxx More Quotes by Jamie Foxx More Quotes From Jamie Foxx 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 django-unchainedroutinegymnastics 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-youdreamsleep 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 honestsingingtrying 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 grandmotherblackhair 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 responsibilityjobsmen 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 bishopsericnames And perfect happiness? Man, that's a...the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm. Jamie Foxx degreesperfectmen You gotta have the balls to go out there and be funny, man. Jamie Foxx funny-menballsmen 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 sexyindependentsong 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 responsibilitysuccesscommitment 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 grandparentgrandmothersouthern 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 starsbasketballinspirational 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 horseblack-and-whitekids 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 daughtermotherkids 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 wifewhiteplay If I were an animal, I would be an eagle. Jamie Foxx eagleswould-beanimal I don't know if I'm built for marriage. Jamie Foxx builtifsknows Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living. Jamie Foxx thank-youbeautifulgiving 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 hip-hopartisthot 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 why-noteverydaynegative
