“When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put ...” — Derek Luke Quote

“When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart.”

“It's a story about victory that will touch the lives of everyone who watches it. It's powerful.”

“I tried to copy some of his mannerisms at first but it didn't work. And then I just let the spirit of the character grow in me and it just took its rightful place. I started to speak the lines and it felt right.”

“More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.”

“Part of my whole project from the beginning was to make an absent world present for my parents, which was India.”

“When Georges St-Pierre retired and Jon Jones was absent, I had Jose Aldo, the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world. That's how highly I think of him.”