The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn't matter what mood you're in or what kind of a year you've had - it's a fresh start.
He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.
There's something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh.
I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of movies.
I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.
Usually a family is led through the mom or the dad and their career and for the family to be led by my career, even though God has led it, could be a lot of pressure.
In the African-American community, we struggle with a lot of health problems that have a lot to do with our diet.
I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.
I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.
Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic school study is a different thing. I can't quite grasp that.
In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.
If you want to get an education in how to get a story and how to survive, then get a street reporter job in New York City.
You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.
I didn't get to see Predator until halfway through shooting. It was great to get an education while I was shooting because it made me excited to be part of this legacy.
My concern for education in New Mexico has always been there. I'm one of those kids that struggled through school, and I feel like I fell through the cracks.
I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.
In '42,' it's like the '40s where racial equality had come into the consciousness of a lot of people, whereas in the 1900s it was sort of a new thing.
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
