Terrence Howard Quotes

No, most of the decisions that I make with regard to taking roles, I just look for something that’s challenging, something that I think I can accomplish, you know.

I don’t think President Obama has been that revolutionary in reaching out to ethnic communities. President Reagan did a lot for the black community that people don’t realize.

I’ve always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power.

As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm.

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression.

The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.

I don’t have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job.

I’m trying to make enough money where I can be financially independent and be able to go and just pursue that thing that everybody really needs, just pursue my family and the cause of my family.

Don’t just view me as an actor.

I ad lib. I’ve gotta bring my own into it.

I can’t tell you if one day I’ll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can.

When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they’re making honey in there.

So I show appreciation for the little gifts that have been handed to me.

My life‘s experiences, I’ve always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what’s going to happen oftentimes before it happened when it’s involving me.

Every little job becomes a dream, and you don’t recall it anymore, and maybe you might have a deja vu moment, but it’s like something you dreamed earlier.

All the things we have to remember, and I’ve mentioned this before, is that we’re all artists.

The only thing that really matters in the initial part of my career, the worst mistake I’ve ever made was try to do things to please the audience thinking how the audience is going to respond if I do this.

In every person we meet there’s this little piece of God in them and that’s who you talk to. And that’s the only person that you allow to talk to you. When something else is speaking, you walk away from that. If it’s not good, if it’s not love, you walk away from it.

And right now I may just be living inside the heart of the body, and I one day hope to move to the brain.

Every one of us is an artist, and as an artist, you really can stroll into any venue that you want, as long as you take your time to learn the etiquette of that venue.

I am an engineer, but what I find important and necessary is that you just learn things as you go along.

We call the Creator father, because we rely upon Him to protect us, guide us, feed us, keep us warm, to discipline us and all those things. I try to take my cue from the Creator, with regard to my children.