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
Can I just tell you that I am having the ride of my life right now? 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 a whole lot more.
When you look at Michael Jackson, there's nobody who loves him in that family, nobody. If they did, they'd tell him he didn't have to do all that in order to be famous. All he has to do is keep doing his music and be himself. Michael's been a little touched for about 20 years, but somebody needs to pull him aside and tell him they love him.
I love music. I've always wanted to do music, even when I started out as a comedian.
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.
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.
Don't kill this guy. Don't kill him. We've got our fingers crossed.
We didn't know we were being unpredictable with the decision we were making. I just looked at people like Chris Rock and Will Smith, and they had their slots of how they became successful. We did things off the beaten path.
Some say that sex is overrated but they just ain't doin' it right!
So there is not a lot about me that you don't know other than that I play table tennis. I'm great, I'm great at table tennis! You will look at me and go, 'How does that dude know how to play that well?'
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.'
Since we're at the Met, we've got some opera that we have to sing. So we're going to do a little hip hop opera. It's going to be off the hook.
I look forward to working with the NAACP in bringing immediate and ongoing aid to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina was a heart attack that revealed a long history of social illnesses. You can't be human and watch all these different things go down and not do anything, ... People from all over the world are looking at these images and saying, wow; we just really want to help. So at the end of the day it's all of us.
If I'm in the studio, I'm completely on music. I try to go to that place and that's the toughest thing for me to do. When I'm with other musicians, sometimes I go back to, almost like, childhood, because that's what I always wanted to be.
Nobody wants to hear R&B. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.