Jamie Foxx

Jamie Foxx
Eric Marlon Bishop, known professionally as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer, songwriter, and comedian. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, for his work in the 2004 biographical film Ray. The same year, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the crime film Collateral...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth13 December 1967
CityTerrell, TX
CountryUnited States of America
The reason you have to do this is you have to let them know that you're real.
I told Tony I would look after her.
It's good to be surrounded by black folks. Black folks are music.
It's heavy. Heavy in a way that there's a real sense of danger, a real sense of what these guys go through as undercover cops.
They were more like, 'How was it on the mountaintop?' and I'd sit down and tell 'em, ... 'Wow, you can't believe this! There was Clint Eastwood over there and this other person over there.' It was amazing to be able to come back and share that with cats who may be able to achieve it, too.
I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.
Every single thing in my life is built around race.
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?'
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 would say my grandmother would be like my personal god.
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.
Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.
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.
I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.