Epps Quotes

#1. Soon after he purchased me, Epps asked me if I could write and read, and on being informed that I had received some instruction in those branches of education, he assured me, with emphasis, if he ever caught me with a book, or with pen and ink, he would give me a hundred lashes.

Solomon Northup

#2. It is the literal, unvarnished truth, that the crack of the lash, and the shrieking of the slaves, can be heard from dark till bed time, on Epps' plantation, any day almost during the entire period of the cotton-picking season.

Solomon Northup

#3. Drawn up and signed by the proper parties, wherein Epps acknowledged he

Solomon Northup

#4. The only way to ensure a film is going to sell is put Will Smith in it and you open it in 3,000 theaters and make sure we have all the top promotional spots in each venue.

Omar Epps

#5. You would be surprised of films that people just don't see. You know what I mean? I'm always working and I'm a film buff but I'm an old school film buff.

Mike Epps

#6. May I never forget, on my best day, that I need God as desperately as I did on my worst day

Mike Epps

#7. A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

Omar Epps

#8. I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

Omar Epps

#9. I'm a survivor of life. I try to give the glory to God and appreciate what's happening to me.

Mike Epps

#10. The only limitations that I can have are the ones that I set on myself.

Omar Epps

#11. You know, my life's changed now. I'm starting to experience what people are really supposed to do. You supposed to be married. You're supposed to have a family, kids, treat your wife right.

Mike Epps

#12. President is a curious term for the American head of state, because "presiding" in any meaningful sense is the one thing the president of the United States does not do.

Garrett Epps

#13. Yeah, I don't mess with chicks younger. They got to be almost thirty.

Mike Epps

#14. I'm humble enough to wait and just chill. I'm having fun just working with these good people, man.

Mike Epps

#15. I get a lot of people trying to take advantage of me because of my kindness. I'm either real nice to you, or I want to cut your head off. There's no in between with me.

Mike Epps

#16. Honestly, I feel like I am a leading man, and it's just going to take the right project, the female and the right studio. It's got to all gel together, you know what I mean?

Mike Epps

#17. Just the fact that I'm in the game is great. I'm just blessed to be working. I got a plan, but I'm humble and I try to be humble.

Mike Epps

#18. The world is as it should be.

Omar Epps

#19. On 'Friday,' I had a big trailer, and we would have a barbecue going and music playing. It was a fun set. There was too much involved for 'The Hangover' to be a fun set. They're trying to get money.

Mike Epps

#20. The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is loving myself 100%. And that's still a battle. I love myself, but sometimes you can be your own worst enemy. And I think I've been my worst enemy in life, because others haven't been able to do anything to me unless I allowed them to do it.

Mike Epps

#21. Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole ... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

Mike Epps

#22. Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

Omar Epps

#23. It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.

Omar Epps

#24. Every now and then you get a nice Jewish kid who likes black people and they would come in, and it would be a stream of them, and have black friends and really feel the black struggle on the acting tip and it's a reason why all of us are not dying in the movie.

Mike Epps

#25. I love Richard Pryor. I love him to death.

Mike Epps

#26. I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.

Mike Epps

#27. Cedric, man, it's like if I'm working with you, like I'm sitting here now talking to you, I want to get along with you. That's how I am. I feel like if I get along with you, the work will be splendid.

Mike Epps

#28. You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.

Omar Epps

#29. You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.

Mike Epps

#30. Well, I think Hollywood, to be quite honest, I think they've run out of material.

Mike Epps

#31. The whole Miami Heat team is my least my favorite athlete. Why? Because they keep beating my Pacers.

Mike Epps

#32. I believe that every innovative thought comes from a creative mindset ... A creative mindset is what drives our world, and art is the base of that.

Omar Epps

#33. The new Constitution, however, is brought to us by a Muse, ordained by the authority of the People, and established at the center of our common life. We can read these words as creating a national religion, one at which we still worship.

Garrett Epps

#34. If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.

Omar Epps

#35. People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.

Omar Epps

#36. We were all Romans once, I guess.

Omar Epps

#37. We all take losses and it's about getting up and coming back.

Mike Epps

#38. I'm telling a Richard Pryor story through me.

Mike Epps

#39. Everybody that's living in this earth is living in a situation. It's not narrow-minded to the point where everybody is serious and nobody has a personality. I think people die telling jokes.

Mike Epps

#40. There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.

Omar Epps

#41. They have what you call a black night where they have black people come in for just one night only to watch comedy, and you get all your local drug dealers, thugs, prostitutes, all of them come in, sit down, and listen to you tell jokes. They the hardest people to make laugh.

Mike Epps

#42. I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.

Omar Epps

#43. People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood.

Omar Epps

#44. I watch old school film so that I can learn so much that I just sort of miss all the new stuff.

Mike Epps

#45. 'Resident Evil' was different. I like to challenge myself and do different things sometimes. So when it came to me, I was, like, 'Come on with it, I'll do it.

Mike Epps

#46. I've been with this young lady for about two years now, and my life changed. I don't even think that way no more. I feel good, too, that I'm changed. Now I feel regular. I feel like I'm supposed to.

Mike Epps

#47. I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.

Omar Epps

#48. I learned that you don't have to be all over the place, that you can be subtle and you can say what you say. The words that you put together can be just as hilarious as falling all over the place or doing something.

Mike Epps

#49. She didn't break his heart, but I feel like a man is supposed to be a man, he ain't supposed to be all involved in that. That's why she got sisters and friend for. Just show up with the ring and act right.

Mike Epps

#50. I used to be a dusty little child.

Mike Epps

#51. That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.

Omar Epps

#52. I'm gonna have to develop myself. I'm just going to do the best that I can do.

Mike Epps

#53. To have longevity in this business, you have to reinvent yourself. You can't keep doing the same stuff. Sometimes I've turned down stuff and lost money.

Mike Epps

#54. I don't know nothing about no marriages or nothing. I ain't even never been to a wedding.

Mike Epps

#55. I don't know why people think I'm this ad-lib dude.

Mike Epps

#56. I've never taken myself too seriously.

Omar Epps

#57. I've been doing comedy and paying my bills.

Mike Epps

#58. You know how Hollywood is: They just follow suit.

Mike Epps

#59. With Ice Cube they ain't no telling. He might have one cocked and loaded, ready to bust. We might do The Sunday, two old men sitting around the house waiting on the social security check.

Mike Epps

#60. I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton; I'm not playing Ed Norton but my version of it, cause I'm a black man.

Mike Epps

#61. Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.

Omar Epps

#62. Writing is the beast unto itself.

Omar Epps

#63. I would love to play Magnum P.I.

Mike Epps

#64. But I'm real conscious about what I do. I don't care what the label is. I'm looking at the outcome of it.

Mike Epps