The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.
I remember those moments in my life when the tape came out on that Tuesday, and I went to Sam Goody to cop it. And sitting and listening to it. In awe of the music I was listening to, but also imagining this music at the hip-hop clubs and with the homies in the car.
My inspiration for new products comes from moments in my life or what's happening around me.
Because work takes up a lot of time, you have to choose your moments for really letting rip. I hang out with my friends and my family and I spend time with my kids when I'm not working. They don't see my being an actor as exotic. For them, it's just an everyday thing. Sometimes it's amusing to them and other times, embarrassing.
There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be love, I guess, and failure could still be love, but the bad side; and loss.
No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.
Life is short, and time just flies by, so I love those moments when we're all sitting around the table together laughing and joking.
I do not hold God ransom to my success; whatever is his will is my way. I stand by moments; I do not stand by time.
Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
I've always been 'ethnic friend,' without any serious moments, all jokes.
