Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it.
I'm actually very sensitive to energies, and when people are not aligned, I can feel that.
Acting is not glamorous. It's not. Anybody who wants to get into acting for the glamour is in for a hard time.
I tell the most horrible jokes.
I love what I do, but I never want to OD on celebrity.
Often, people ask if it's different doing live-action and voice-over, but the only thing that's different, really, is that we're in a booth and there's no camera on me. But, my intention, as an actor, is exactly the same.
I love European films in general. If I were to go to the movie store or something, that's what I like to see.
Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.
When I think about capitalism, I think about all the small businesses that were started because we have the opportunity and the freedom in America for people to do that and to make a good living for themselves and their families. And I don't think we should confuse what we have to do every so often in America, which is save capitalism from itself.
Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years, it's a name that the streets taught me, a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment, and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name. [But] it's time to expand and move on.
If you're not called crazy when you launch something new, it means you're not thinking BIG enough.