Jamie Foxx Quotes - Page 3

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• Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.

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  Beautiful, College, Play

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• But don't get caught out there looking goofy. It's weird. When you do something that stinks, it's going to last forever on the Internet. There's always someone in the audience with a camera phone and if you're not 100%, you're going to be watching yourself on YouTube.

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  Phones, Forever, Cameras

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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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  Mean, Guy, Comedian

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• What we do in New Orleans, man - we party!

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  Party, Men, New Orleans

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• I'm a southern gentleman.

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  Southern, Gentleman, Southern Gentleman

  "Jamie Foxx Interview - THE KINGDOM". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 27, 2007.

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• When your movie is hot, your options are crazy.

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  Crazy, Hot

  "Anne Hathaway, Jamie Foxx, George Lopez and Carlos Saldanha Interview RIO". collider.com. January 31, 2011.

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• As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.

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  Black, Sensitive, Folks

  "VIBE Cover Story: Django Unchained". Interview with Erik Parker, www.vibe.com. November 28, 2012.

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

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  Stories, Life Is, Most Amazing

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing.

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  Christmas, Valentine, Years

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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.

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  Inspirational, Basketball, Stars

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  Horse, Kids, Black And White

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

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  Men, Balls, Funny Men

  Source: collider.com

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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.

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  Girl, Teacher, School

  "Jamie Unchained". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.

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  Thank You, Beautiful, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  Artist, Hip Hop, Hot

  "Comic-Con: Jamie Foxx Talks DJANGO UNCHAINED, His Toughest Scene to Shoot, Tarantino’s Musical Dialogue and Doing a Song for the Soundtrack". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 17, 2012.

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• What's weird is when you meet a girl who is 23 and you are talking to her, even her voice is high-pitched, she's young. You ask her how old she is, she says, 'Twenty-three, how old are you?' and when I tell her I'm 41 it's like I've just told her I have cancer. It's, 'Oh my God, how long have you had that?'

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  Girl, Cancer, Talking

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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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  Funny, Thinking, Black

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery?

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  Years, Two, Holocaust

  "Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington & Leonardo DiCaprio on the cover of Vibe". www.jamie-foxx.us. November 28, 2012.

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• A lot of people may not know how competitive it is to play classical music, because when you think about it, the music that you're playing is music that's been here for years. And all you're trying to do is improve upon it when you play.

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  Thinking, Years, Play

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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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  Christmas, Men, Thinking

  "Jamie Foxx Interview - THE SOLOIST" by Steve ‘Frosty’ Weintraub, collider.com. April 23, 2009.

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• You guys have so much energy. I threw a party in Toronto and there were, like, 4,000 people who couldn't get in.

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  Party, People, Guy

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• I think girls have to play a little hard to get because we come with so much bravado.

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  Girl, Thinking, Play

  "Anne Hathaway, Jamie Foxx, George Lopez and Carlos Saldanha Interview RIO". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 31, 2011.

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• I love music. I've always wanted to do music, even when I started out as a comedian.

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  Comedian, Music Love, I Love Music

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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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  Men, People, Musical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

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  Sports, Athlete, Hollywood

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