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Theres This Little Box That African-american Actors Have To Work In, In The First Place, And I Was Able To Rise Above That Box. I Could Have Done A Bunch Of Movies Where I Stayed As The Axel Foley Or Reggie Hammond Persona. But I Didnt Want To Be Doing The Same Thing All The Time. Every Now And Then, You Crash And Burn, But Thats Part Of It.

White Boys Always Get The Oscar. It's A Known Fact. Did I Ever Get A Nomination? No! You Know Why? Cause I Hadn't Played Any Of Them Slave Roles, And Get My Ass Whipped. That's How You Get The Nomination. A Black Dude Who Plays A Slave That Gets His Ass Whipped Gets The Nomination, A White Guy Who Plays An Idiot Gets The Oscar. That's What I Need, I Need To Play A Retarded Slave, Then I'll Get The Oscar.

If I Don't Die In A Plane Crash Or Something, This Country Has A Rare Opportunity To Watch A Great Talent Grow.

From The Very Beginning, I Always Tried To Make Dialogue Flow Comfortably; I Always Did That To Make It Seem More Authentic.

Every Bad Decision I've Made Has Been Based On Money. I Grew Up In The Projects And You Don't Turn Down Money There. You Take It, Because You Never Know When It's All Going To End. I Made Cop Iii Because They Offered Me $15 Million. That $15 Million Was Worth Having Roger Ebert's Thumb Up My Ass.