You don't try to do anything that Morgan Freeman does. He was the voice of God in a movie. That's Morgan Freeman!
I think there's something that happens at 40 where you settle into your own skin and you stop caring what people think - you realize life is a gift from God and you want to live it to the fullest.
I love to give. I've been a giver all my life.
I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.
If you look at 'The Have and the Have Nots,' I didn't want to write a show where everyone is great and wonderful and perfect. I wanted to write it so that you're not really sure who the haves are. You look at Hanna, and you see that she doesn't have much, but she has great faith.
Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them.
I haven't read a book in a very, very long time because, when I'm writing, I don't like to see other people's work. I don't want to see something great and not be able to use it, and I don't want to have any subconscious influences.
The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.
Very early on, when I started doing these plays and live shows, I would travel from city to city, and there were a million shows out there... so I wanted to step out among it, and I started putting my name above the title.
The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.
Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.
I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.
I work three months really hard, nonstop, and then I take a month off. Then I do it all over again. I work hard but I give myself four breaks a year.
Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She's an amazing woman.
It's a dream realized to partner with Oprah and bring scripted programming to OWN. She has accomplished so much with the network, and I'm excited to work with her to be a part of its continued growth.
I think every one of us, in life, have some sort of moment that has happened that we wish we could have done differently or that we wish could have had a different outcome.
I remember being a kid and praying in the hell of my house to have somebody love me and somebody that I could love.
I've been doing television with TBS for quite some time, and it's been a great journey.
I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.
I'm not afraid to have a character say, 'I am a Christian,' or, 'I believe in God,' because I think they represent real people on this Earth.
