Jamie Foxx Quotes

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

Love, Dreams, Sleep

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

Life, Music, Positive

I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account.
Jamie Foxx

Angry, Help, Real

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

Beautiful, Give, Living

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

Time, Women, Heart

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

Name, Stage, Superman

When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.
Jamie Foxx

Different, Destiny, Energy

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

Happiness, Perfect, Farm

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

Person, Black, Sensitive

Every single thing in my life is built around race.
Jamie Foxx

Life, Single, Around

I don't know if I'm built for marriage.
Jamie Foxx

Marriage, Built

I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.
Jamie Foxx

Great, Thinking, Win

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.
Jamie Foxx

Funny, Else, Wanted

I would say my grandmother would be like my personal god.
Jamie Foxx

I'm a southern gentleman.
Jamie Foxx

Gentleman, Southern

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.
Jamie Foxx

Life, Sports, Hollywood

If I were an animal, I would be an eagle.
Jamie Foxx

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.
Jamie Foxx

Long, Living, Here

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.
Jamie Foxx

Learning, Hard, Living

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

Experience, Black, Trying

Nobody wants to hear R&B. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.
Jamie Foxx

Sad, Young, Nobody

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.
Jamie Foxx

Work, Great, Chance

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

Women, Learn, Playing

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

Cannot, Violence, Influence

Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.
Jamie Foxx

Music, Said, Daughter

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: December 13, 1967

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