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Jamie Foxx, born on December 13, 1967, is a versatile actor, singer, and music producer from the United States. Known for his diverse talents and unique performance style, he has starred in numerous Hollywood films, including 'Bad Boys II', 'Thor' series, and 'Django Unchained'. Foxx has also achieved significant success in the music industry, winning an Academy Award for Best Actor.

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“A woman's posterior is the key to my heart.”

Heart Keys My Heart

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“all of us feel special inside to where we feel as if we are the best, unique, or blessed. of course this is true, our error in this thought process is we forget that all the other people and all living things are just as special as we feel about ourselve.”

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“I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior.”

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“if I fail as Jamie Foxx, I'll just change my name and come back as something else.”

Ifs Names Failing Jamie

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“I didn't have a knee-jerk reaction like some people did to the language and the violence. My stepfather was a history teacher at Lincoln High School in Dallas. So, I was already familiar with the N-word and the brutality of slavery. What I was drawn to was the love story between Django and Broomhilda and how he defends and gets the girl in the end. I thought it was just an amazing and courageous project.”

“Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic. I really wanted to be in love, get married, have kids and buy a wood-paneled station wagon for the family. But it didn't work out, and, boy, it wrecked it!”

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“Mike Tyson's life is one of the most amazing American stories.”

Stories Life Is Mike Most Amazing Tyson

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“I think there's grays in characters if you look at all the great characters, those characters that have those layers of being good and being bad and what's the struggle. It's always more interesting to watch.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Character Interesting Watches Struggle Be Good Layers Great Character Being Bad

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“This whole thing called the internet and all this other kind of stuff is about to go crazy. It's all going to change. But, you know what's not going to change? The talented people.”

People Knows Kind Whole Stuff Crazy Internet

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“If you can, always be appreciative of the ebb and flow of the losses and the wins.”

Ifs Winning Loss Flow Appreciative Ebb And Flow

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“What I've noticed is that when people win huge and they have those huge, huge successes, sometimes they forget about the actual acting of it, and sometimes it's hard to come down from their perch.”

People Sometimes Hard Winning Forget Acting Huge

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“All of us black comedians are trying to be mainstream, but you don't want to lose the edge.”

Want Trying Black Loses Edges Comedian Mainstream

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“In black comedic culture, there's always been a thing about "Man, I ain't gotta wear a dress to be funny!" But I've done it.”

Men Done Culture Black Dresses Comedic

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“You gotta have the balls to go out there and be funny, man.”

Men Balls Funny Men

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“I live young and I keep the weight off of me.”

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“I wish I could take what I'm feeling right now and put it in the water system, and we would all love each other.”

Life Feelings Wish Water Drink Right Now Love Each Other

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“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.'”

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“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.”

“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.”

Want Success Certain Choices Levels Quality Responsibility Commitment Booty

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“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.”

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“Black people are the most talented people in the world.”

People World Black Black People

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“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.”

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“I am a comedian and you guys know whatever I say, I don't mean any of it.”

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“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?”

People Play Black White Worry Wife Slave My Wife Chains

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“In L.A. you can hide. I can hide at the beach, hide up in the hills. In Miami everybody is looking at you.”

I Can Hills Beach Miami

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“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.”

Inspirational Giving Stars Basketball Shots Let Me Give Me Shooting Score Get Away Pool Hung Baskets Playing Basketball Homies

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“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.”

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“(I get to) kill all the white people... How great is that?”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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

Made Decision Decision Making Law Abiding Citizen

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“What we do in New Orleans, man - we party!”

Men Party New Orleans

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“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.”

Energy Dark Interesting Acting Most Interesting Interesting Things Dark Places

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“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.”

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“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.”

Ifs Want Looks Long Has Beens Eye Earth Blink Blink Of An Eye

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“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.”

Men Hard Jokes Piano Grandma My Grandma Hard Days

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“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.”

People Art Grows Chance Inspire

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“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.”

People Helping Eight Piano

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“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.”

Doe Film Turns Violence Influence

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About the Author

Born: December 13, 1967
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 89

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