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You gotta have the balls to go out there and be funny, man.

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Jamie Foxx
Age: 56
Born: 1967
Born: December 13
Actor
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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?
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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.
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I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.
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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.
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Being just an actor, sometimes people are like, Hey, man, we don't wanna see you no more, in front of the camera, and I don't want that.
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Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.
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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.
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I live young and I keep the weight off of me.
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if I fail as Jamie Foxx, I'll just change my name and come back as something else.
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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.
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