60+ Jamie Foxx Quotes On Boat, Diddy And Ed Sheeran

Jamie Foxx is an American actor, singer, songwriter, and comedian. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the biographical film Ray (2004). He has also starred in films such as Collateral (2004), Django Unchained (2012), and Baby Driver (2017). Following is our collection on famous quotes by Jamie Foxx on life, leadership, love.

Top 10 Jamie Foxx Quotes

1. 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.
2. We can't retract the decisions we've made, we can only affect the decisions we're going to make from here.
3. (I get to) kill all the white people... How great is that?
4. If you can, always be appreciative of the ebb and flow of the losses and the wins.
5. 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.
6. In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?
7. Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.
8. My Grandmother would say, 'Make sure you look good. Make sure you speak well. Make sure you remain that Southern gentleman that I've taught you to be.'
9. I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.
10. You have a responsibility to your work, to your choices. Once you get to a certain level of quality and commitment, you don't want to go back and make Booty Call 7.

Jamie Foxx Short Quotes

• Mike Tyson's life is one of the most amazing American stories.
• if I fail as Jamie Foxx, I'll just change my name and come back as something else.
• I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior.
• I think girls have to play a little hard to get because we come with so much bravado.
• When your movie is hot, your options are crazy.
• Doc Rivers been hoarse since birth
• I am a comedian and you guys know whatever I say, I don't mean any of it.
• A woman's posterior is the key to my heart.
• You are what you repeatedly do when things get hard.
• What we do in New Orleans, man - we party!

Jamie Foxx Quotes About Love

Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic. I really wanted to be in love, get married, have kids and buy a wood-paneled station wagon for the family. But it didn't work out, and, boy, it wrecked it! — Jamie Foxx

I love music. I've always wanted to do music, even when I started out as a comedian. — Jamie Foxx

I wish I could take what I'm feeling right now and put it in the water system, and we would all love each other. — Jamie Foxx

Jamie Foxx Quotes About Funny

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

In black comedic culture, there's always been a thing about "Man, I ain't gotta wear a dress to be funny!" But I've done it. — Jamie Foxx

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. — Jamie Foxx

Jamie Foxx Quotes About Blackness

All of us black comedians are trying to be mainstream, but you don't want to lose the edge. — Jamie Foxx

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? — Jamie Foxx

Black people are the most talented people in the world. — Jamie Foxx

Jamie Foxx Quotes About Living

all of us feel special inside to where we feel as if we are the best, unique, or blessed. of course this is true, our error in this thought process is we forget that all the other people and all living things are just as special as we feel about ourselve. — Jamie Foxx

I live young and I keep the weight off of me. — Jamie Foxx

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

Jamie Foxx Quotes About Music

A lot of people may not know how competitive it is to play classical music, because when you think about it, the music that you're playing is music that's been here for years. And all you're trying to do is improve upon it when you play. — Jamie Foxx

I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior. Whether that's the truth or not, I'm definitely going out there with my mic and my shield to declare, 'I am here to save R&B.' I will have the people saying, 'Sir, there is a man at the musical gates saying he is here to save R&B. — Jamie Foxx

Lil Wayne is a music god!!!! — Jamie Foxx

Jamie Foxx Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Jamie Foxx

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. — Jamie Foxx

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? — Jamie Foxx

When you sing R&B songs in front of an audience, you look out and there's 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. — Jamie Foxx

Also, I think having that comic gene kind of makes you look at things in a different way. If you take yourself so seriously, eventually you end up one of those people having a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on their lives. You see them drawing the curtains and they don't even realize that they've kind of drifted off somewhere. — Jamie Foxx

What's weird is when you meet a girl who is 23 and you are talking to her, even her voice is high-pitched, she's young. You ask her how old she is, she says, 'Twenty-three, how old are you?' and when I tell her I'm 41 it's like I've just told her I have cancer. It's, 'Oh my God, how long have you had that?' — Jamie Foxx

I think there's grays in characters if you look at all the great characters, those characters that have those layers of being good and being bad and what's the struggle. It's always more interesting to watch. — Jamie Foxx

You guys have so much energy. I threw a party in Toronto and there were, like, 4,000 people who couldn't get in. — Jamie Foxx

I want to thank my daughter, who told me, 'If you don't win, Dad, you're still good,' ... who taught me how to act. — Jamie Foxx

I didn't have a knee-jerk reaction like some people did to the language and the violence. My stepfather was a history teacher at Lincoln High School in Dallas. So, I was already familiar with the N-word and the brutality of slavery. What I was drawn to was the love story between Django and Broomhilda and how he defends and gets the girl in the end. I thought it was just an amazing and courageous project. — Jamie Foxx

Well, the album 'Intuition' is out and just went platinum officially. So I think to have the music doing what it's doing right now, man, it's the ultimate. Nobody is really selling records out there but we are at a million records and we dropped it at Christmas, so we are just trying to get that thing to like two million, you know. — Jamie Foxx

Yeah, anytime anybody has a kid, you know how you feel when you have a kid, you look at the world differently because your kid's in the world now. When it's just you, whatever happens happens but now you pay more attention to political things. You pay more attention to things because your daughter or your son has to deal with these circumstances. — Jamie Foxx

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

This whole thing called the internet and all this other kind of stuff is about to go crazy. It's all going to change. But, you know what's not going to change? The talented people. — Jamie Foxx

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

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. — Jamie Foxx

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

But don't get caught out there looking goofy. It's weird. When you do something that stinks, it's going to last forever on the Internet. There's always someone in the audience with a camera phone and if you're not 100%, you're going to be watching yourself on YouTube. — Jamie Foxx

We can't wave a magic wand and get rid of any of these people's problems, but what they want is they want to be heard. — Jamie Foxx

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. — Jamie Foxx

I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera. I can be behind the camera and really change things cinematically, and this is giving me an opportunity to do something behind the camera, which I really want to maximize. — Jamie Foxx

What I've noticed is that when people win huge and they have those huge, huge successes, sometimes they forget about the actual acting of it, and sometimes it's hard to come down from their perch. — Jamie Foxx

It's like church over here. It's like church in here. First of all, give an honor to God and our Lord and Savior Barack Obama. — Jamie Foxx

It's hard to be a celebrity nowadays. It's not about your track record anymore. If you have a great movie, you're good. If not, people are ready to write you off. I think the only ones who are really winning are people like Will Smith. People go, 'Oh, it's Will Smith. I've got to see him, whatever he's in.' — Jamie Foxx

In L.A. you can hide. I can hide at the beach, hide up in the hills. In Miami everybody is looking at you. — Jamie Foxx

Life Lessons by Jamie Foxx

1. Jamie Foxx has shown that hard work and dedication can lead to success, regardless of the odds.
2. He has also demonstrated that it is possible to be successful in multiple fields, such as acting, music, and comedy.
3. His resilience in the face of adversity is an inspiring example of how to overcome obstacles and achieve one's goals.