Jamie Foxx Quotes

Top 27 Jamie Foxx Quotes About Dreaming Big & Making A Difference

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Jamie Foxx is an American actor, comedian and singer who is the recipient of many awards, including grammy awards. He started his career as a comedian by accepting his girlfriend’s dare, and he began telling jokes and making impressions. His original name was Eric Marlon Bishop; however, since female comedian presenters performed first, he changed his name to Jamie Foxx to disallow any biases as the name he chose did not belong to one specific gender.

Here are some Jamie Foxx Quotes

  1. “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.”
  2. “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.”
  3. 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.”
  4. “I’m a Southern gentleman.”
  5. “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.”
  6. “I would say my grandmother would be like my personal god.”
  7. Stand-up is my heart and now I get a chance to do that and the music altogether. That’s going to be great. I’m trying to be the Sammy Davis Jr. of 2005. I’m planning on going out with Cedric the Entertainer because he’s got that musical bone, too.”
  8. When you’re an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we don’t get a chance to get to it. Myself, I really want to get into it. I want to be the person who eventually doesn’t have to be in front of the camera.”
  9. “I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn’t want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.”
  10. “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.”
  11. “When you sing R&B songs in front of an audience, you look out and there are 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.”
  12. “Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That’s when my daughter said that I had made it in music.”
  13. 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.”
  14. “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?”
  15. “I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it’s just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it’s standup or singing or acting. I just try to stay true.”
  16. “I remember meeting President Obama and looking at him, thinking, ‘Damn, this dude is really our president. He really went out and did it!’ If you look at stories like that, and other stories that I’m sure you could compare to, it’s just about freeing your mind and taking those guards down.”
  17. “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.”
  18. “I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for ‘Ray,’ I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.”
  19. “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.”
  20. “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.”
  21. “If I’m in the studio, I’m completely on music. I try to go to that place and that’s the toughest thing for me to do. When I’m with other musicians, sometimes I go back to, almost like, childhood, because that’s what I always wanted to be.”
  22. “I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody’s going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.”
  23. “If I were an animal. I would be an eagle.”
  24. “As a kid, I was scared of losing my mind. In Terrell, Texas, where I grew up, there was a guy that would walk down the street talking to himself. And I used to watch him and feel uneasy. And there was a sanitarium where people would say, ‘That’s where all the crazy people go.’ It really sort of frightened me.”
  25. “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.”
  26. “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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