Jamie Foxx

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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.
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I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing.
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.
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.'
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.
Nobody wants to hear R&B. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.
In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?
In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?
I don't know if I'm built for marriage.
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.
And perfect happiness? Man, that's a... the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.
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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