Jamie Foxx Quotes

United States, Actor
December 13, 1967

Eric Marlon Bishop, known professionally as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer, songwriter, record producer, film producer, and comedian. For his portrayal of Ray Charles in the 2004 biographical film Ray, he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. That same year, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the crime film Collateral. Since spring 2017, Foxx has served as the host and executive producer of the Fox game show Beat Shazam.

Also known as Singer-Songwriter, Record Producer

If I were an animal, I would be an eagle.

Jamie Foxx
- Animal
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.

Jamie Foxx
- Superman

A lot of people may not know how competitive it is to play classical music, because when you think about it, the music that you're playing is music that's been here for years. And all you're trying to do is improve upon it when you play.

Jamie Foxx
- People
- Music
- Trying
I remember meeting President Obama and looking at him, thinking, 'Damn, this dude is really our president. He really went out and did it!' If you look at stories like that, and other stories that I'm sure you could compare to, it's just about freeing your mind and taking those guards down.

Jamie Foxx
- Thinking
- Mind
- Remember
When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we don't get a chance to get to it. Myself, I really want to get into it. I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera.

Jamie Foxx
- Business
Yeah, the sitcom world is dead. It's all reality.

Jamie Foxx
- World
- Reality
If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we're living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it.

Jamie Foxx
- Long
- Earth
I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.

Jamie Foxx
- Up
- True
- Singing

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.

Jamie Foxx
- Music
- Childhood
Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.

Jamie Foxx
- People
- Women
You know what? I never really factor Hollywood into anything. I'm a black actor, so I can't really control what Hollywood thinks. I gotta go do my thing, and my jokes have got to be funny. Whatever I do has got to be great.

Jamie Foxx
- Great
- Black
- Funny