Jamie Foxx Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Jamie Foxx

  Crazy, People, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Gymnastics, Django Unchained, Routine

  "Jamie Foxx Talks PROJECT IMAGINAT10N, Playing the President in WHITE HOUSE DOWN, Tarantino’s DJANGO UNCHAINED and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 24, 2012.

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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.

  Jamie Foxx

  Doe, Violence, Influence

  "Discovery hit ‘American Guns’ canceled as Hollywood wrestles with links to gun violence" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. December 17, 2012.

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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.

  Jamie Foxx

  Daughter, Mother, Kids

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

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• 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 You, Dream, Sleep

  Jamie Foxx' Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 27, 2005.

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• 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!

  Jamie Foxx

  Heart, Kids, Boys

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

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• 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

  Success, Commitment, Responsibility

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• 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

  Names, Eric, Bishops

  "Oprah Talks to Jamie Foxx". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2005.

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• Connecting with my daughter is the most important thing in my life - the priority. I want to be a man who shows up for her. I want to have such a big influence on her, so that she knows she can call me about anything, which she does.

  Jamie Foxx

  Daughter, Mother, Men

  "Oprah Talks to Jamie Foxx". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2005.

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• In looking at Hollywood and its structure, the director controls the medium, and I want to be in control of certain things. I want to be able to get my own ideas and my own feelings out there, and the only way to do that is to be behind the camera.

  Jamie Foxx

  Ideas, Feelings, Cameras

  "Jamie Foxx Talks PROJECT IMAGINAT10N, Playing the President in WHITE HOUSE DOWN, Tarantino’s DJANGO UNCHAINED and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 24, 2012.

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• I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior.

  Jamie Foxx

  Savior

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

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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.

  Jamie Foxx

  Eight, Piano, People

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• And perfect happiness? Man, that's a...the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.

  Jamie Foxx

  Men, Perfect, Degrees

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

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• Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic.

  Jamie Foxx

  Heart, Broken, Guy

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• Also, I think having that comic gene kind of makes you look at things in a different way. If you take yourself so seriously, eventually you end up one of those people having a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on their lives. You see them drawing the curtains and they don't even realize that they've kind of drifted off somewhere.

  Jamie Foxx

  Thinking, Drawing, People

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

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

  Jamie Foxx

  Names, Failing, Jamie

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

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• I don't know if I'm built for marriage.

  Jamie Foxx

  Built, Knows, Ifs

  "Jamie Foxx:‘I Don’t Know If I’m Built for Marriage‘" by Joan Podrazik, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2012.

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• To be the leading man it's about the celebrity and the looks, and it's tough to do that. People who do it great are people like Tom Cruise and Will Smith - they're built for that. I ain't. I'm more of a character guy.

  Jamie Foxx

  Character, Men, People

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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?

  Jamie Foxx

  Play, White, Wife

  "Celebrities say the dumbest things", www.foxnews.com. 2012.

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• 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

  Everyday, Negative, Why Not

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• 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

  Sexy, Song, Independent

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• I would say my grandmother would be like my personal god.

  Jamie Foxx

  Grandmother, Would Be, My Grandmother

  "Jamie Foxx Interview - THE SOLOIST". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 23, 2009.

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

  Jamie Foxx

  Mean, Guy, Comedian

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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.

  Jamie Foxx

  Phones, Forever, Cameras

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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.

  Jamie Foxx

  Dark, Interesting, Acting

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