“It's hard to be a celebrity nowadays. It's not about your track record...” — Jamie Foxx Quote

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.'

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.

Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.

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 pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore.

I've seen past fighters who don't seem all there anymore, can hardly walk around or look like the Tin Man, they've just been through the wringer.

I don't miss playing guitar anymore. I'm sure that's out of necessity, but I am grateful for so much more. I am surrounded by loving people, and I can still make music.

About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises that the girl gave me, which I don't do anymore, but they were good. And I don't smoke.

When my husband died in 2006, I didn't want to be Mitzi Gaynor anymore.