Top 100 Foxx Quotes
#1. In other words, Foxx represented what Sarah Palin (speaking at a campaign fundraiser in Greensboro three weeks before the election) called "the real America," by which she did not mean fallow farms and disability checks and crack.
George Packer
#2. He (Jimmie Foxx) has muscles in his hair.
Lefty Gomez
#3. Jamie Foxx. He's been very much a mentor and friend, and we've worked together several times. He's just been such an influence in my career. There's nothing that man can't do, and that's something I would like to reflect in my career.
Bresha Webb
#4. Jimmy Foxx could hit me at midnight with the lights out.
Lefty Gomez
#5. Going from drama to just straight-up comedy with Tommy Davidson and Jamie Foxx - what a blast.
Vivica A. Fox
#6. I have a song called 'Decisions' that features Jamie Foxx, Mary J. Blige, John Legend and Common. It's about people who have made a decision to really stand by you as friends.
Busta Rhymes
#7. When Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon, he and all the space scientists were puzzled by an unidentifiable white object. I knew immediately what it was. That was a home run ball hit off me in 1933 by Jimmie Foxx.
Lefty Gomez
#8. Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.
Charley Pride
#9. I wanna chase down Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, Will Smith. I would love to start my film career.
Shemar Moore
#11. William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another.
Kinky Friedman
#12. If I fail as Jamie Foxx, I'll just change my name and come back as something else.
Jamie Foxx
#13. My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.
Henry Louis Gates
#14. I cut the scene out, but there was a moment where Christoph Waltz plays the piano in 'Django [Unchained]' - Jamie [Foxx] is a magnificent piano-player but there's never a moment where Django plays the piano.
Quentin Tarantino
#15. 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
#16. An ideal movie would be, like - to get this to happen, I have to work so much harder - but imagine Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy ... Who else? Donald Faison. Directed by Steven Spielberg. That would be awesome.
Donald Faison
#17. It was really fun working with Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz on set.
Quvenzhane Wallis
#18. If I were catching blindfolded, I'd always know when it was Foxx who connected. He hit the ball harder than anyone else.
Bill Dickey
#19. There remains a degree of anti-black intellectualism in entertainment. Middle and upper-middle class blacks have often been portrayed as buffoons in popular culture; witness the characters of Carlton Banks on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' and Braxton P. Hartnabrig on 'The Jamie Foxx Show.'
John Ridley
#20. I had been having trouble with my eyes. One day my glasses fogged up while I was pitching, but when I cleaned them and looked at the plate and saw Foxx clearly, it frightened me so much I never wore them again.
Lefty Gomez
#21. When you choose a villain, you need something visually exciting. And when you have someone like Jamie Foxx ... you want to make sure the guy with the mask and the guy without the mask are delivering two different performances.
Avi Arad
#22. Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
Al Pacino
#23. Connecting with my daughter is the most important thing in my life - the priority. I want to be a man who shows up for her. I want to have such a big influence on her, so that she knows she can call me about anything, which she does.
Jamie Foxx
#24. America is hungry and starving for more infrastructure investment.
Anthony Foxx
#25. The most interesting thing about acting is when you go to the dark places, that's a lot of energy. When you go to the happiest places, it's also a lot of energy.
Jamie Foxx
#26. This is my first term. I was told it was going to be an exciting term, and a lot of things would be done, and I cannot think about something more exciting than save Social Security.
Virginia Foxx
#27. The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric.
Virginia Foxx
#28. There is no such thing as a Democratic or Republican road, bridge, port, airfield or rail system.
Anthony Foxx
#29. I want to thank my daughter, who told me, 'If you don't win, Dad, you're still good,' ... who taught me how to act.
Jamie Foxx
#30. There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research.
Virginia Foxx
#31. Find a place where you add value to a community.
Anthony Foxx
#32. Sanford and Son is more than just a name. It's a condition, a dynasty, an empire. This here is the finest pile of junk of the world.
Redd Foxx
#33. Do you realize that if the pilgrims have been chasing bobcats instead of turkeys.. we'd all be eating pussy on Thanksgiving?!
Redd Foxx
#34. Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.
Jamie Foxx
#35. I've been trying to get into the Royal Box in New York for years. They say I'm too dirty, my material is too blue. But I think Redd, the whites and blue can be a nice combination.
Redd Foxx
#36. (I get to) kill all the white people ... How great is that?
Jamie Foxx
#37. Less revenue, more people, more freight, more gridlock - that is not a formula for success.
Anthony Foxx
#38. 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
#39. I've seen Congress do some remarkable things within a short period of time.
Anthony Foxx
#40. We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own.
Virginia Foxx
#41. 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
#42. If you come any closer Dal'las I will be forced to tie you to our bedja until we are done with our discussion." "Hmm, I've been meaning to suggest a little rope play in our sex life," she practically purred, truly finding the idea exciting.
Nia K. Foxx
#43. The life expectancy is much longer today than it was when Social Security was created.
Virginia Foxx
#44. The reality about transportation is that it's future-oriented. If we're planning for what we have, we're behind the curve.
Anthony Foxx
#45. What's an archive, son? Is that anything like a closet?
Redd Foxx
#46. Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
Redd Foxx
#47. When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.
Jamie Foxx
#48. I'm a Sagittarian, see, I can't be fenced in. I been living in Las Vegas, greatest city in the world. I look out my window for 100 miles. In Vegas, there's nothing to do but gamble, drink or have sex. I have two of 'em.
Redd Foxx
#49. Today, 65 percent of America's population live in metropolitan areas - and 95 percent of all the transit miles traveled are traveled there. Metropolitan regions are the engines of our economy.
Anthony Foxx
#50. Being just an actor, sometimes people are like, "Hey, man, we don't wanna see you no more, in front of the camera," and I don't want that.
Jamie Foxx
#51. I think Prince should open up a little more to other artists. Just because we love Prince. Especially the old stuff - we love him to death. But if he opened up he would be something to deal with. Imagine Kanye West producing a Prince track? It would be banoodles!
Jamie Foxx
#52. Local transit agencies have developed apps to let you know when the next bus is coming, but there are so many more applications that can be done.
Anthony Foxx
#53. I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior. Whether that's the truth or not, I'm definitely going out there with my mic and my shield to declare, 'I am here to save R&B.' I will have the people saying, 'Sir, there is a man at the musical gates saying he is here to save R&B.'
Jamie Foxx
#54. We cannot meet the needs of a growing country and a growing economy by simply maintaining our current level of effort. We must do more.
Anthony Foxx
#55. A woman's posterior is the key to my heart.
Jamie Foxx
#56. So there is not a lot about me that you don't know other than that I play table tennis. I'm great, I'm great at table tennis! You will look at me and go, 'How does that dude know how to play that well?'
Jamie Foxx
#57. Passengers want options, and when they have options, like passenger rail, they choose them.
Anthony Foxx
#58. To be the leading man it's about the celebrity and the looks, and it's tough to do that. People who do it great are people like Tom Cruise and Will Smith - they're built for that. I ain't. I'm more of a character guy.
Jamie Foxx
#59. Certain things should be yours to have when you work your way to the top.
Redd Foxx
#60. So why in the world would anyone support the unethical, failed use of embryonic stem cells instead of the ethical, successful use of adult stem cells? Because they do not know the difference.
Virginia Foxx
#61. (The bill) is emblematic of the attempt by the majority party to control every aspect of our lives.
Virginia Foxx
#62. The whole idea that vehicles in the future will communicate with each other is a really big deal. It's a big deal for safety ... and it's an opportunity to engage the automobile in the work of ensuring collision avoidance.
Anthony Foxx
#63. From a parent's right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the House Democrat leadership is simply out to lunch.
Virginia Foxx
#65. 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
#66. I was in Nashville, Tennessee, and I saw - we talk about crumbling bridges - I saw one, concrete literally falling onto the underpass below, threatening auto traffic.
Anthony Foxx
#67. Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.
Jamie Foxx
#68. Would I like to see baseball happen in Charlotte? Absolutely.
Anthony Foxx
#69. I have about 20 to 25 platonic relationships with women all across the board from professional to artistic and they always give little clues on what they like.
Jamie Foxx
#70. I play a slave. How black is that? I have to wear chains. How whack is that? But don't worry. I get free. I save my wife and I kill all the white people in the movie. How great is that?
Jamie Foxx
#71. This is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth? I'm coming to join ya, honey!
Redd Foxx
#72. 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
#73. We can't wave a magic wand and get rid of any of these people's problems, but what they want is they want to be heard.
Jamie Foxx
#75. Now ballads, I can mess around and get up on somebody on a ballad. People ain't seen it yet, but I can mess around and get up in there. I've had Ruben Studdard up in my house, Brian McKnight, Tank. Every once in a while I throw down with them.
Jamie Foxx
#76. If I were an animal, I would be an eagle.
Jamie Foxx
#77. 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
#78. Yeah, the sitcom world is dead. It's all reality.
Jamie Foxx
#79. A girl's legs are her best friends ... but even the best of friends must part.
Redd Foxx
#80. The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.
Virginia Foxx
#81. Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.
Virginia Foxx
#82. A lot of people in the technology space love the idea of a solving a problem.
Anthony Foxx
#83. China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.
Virginia Foxx
#84. I ain't from Africa. I'm from St. Louis.
Redd Foxx
#85. With 'Django Unchained,' when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.
Jamie Foxx
#86. I've never read anywhere that you have to understand everything before you take a feeble step in the right direction.
Daniel Foxx
#87. As we look at a future where we're going to have to double our freight capacity, how do you create a freight system that's integrated across the country when you have 50 different freight systems that are built one state at a time?
Anthony Foxx
#88. One poll shows that by 61 percent to 29 percent Americans under 40 say that Social Security needs to be fixed.
Virginia Foxx
#89. I know well the opportunities and the challenges of maintaining and improving infrastructure and providing good transportation choices.
Anthony Foxx
#90. She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you.
Jamie Foxx
#91. I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.
Jamie Foxx
#92. I would say my grandmother would be like my personal god.
Jamie Foxx
#93. In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?
Jamie Foxx
#94. I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.
Anthony Foxx
#95. I carry a knife now because I read in a white magazine that all black people carry knives. So I rushed out and bought me one.
Redd Foxx
#96. Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic.
Jamie Foxx
#97. But don't get caught out there looking goofy. It's weird. When you do something that stinks, it's going to last forever on the Internet. There's always someone in the audience with a camera phone and if you're not 100%, you're going to be watching yourself on YouTube.
Jamie Foxx
#98. You are what you repeatedly do when things get hard.
Jamie Foxx
#99. The first misconception is that embryonic stem cell research is not legal. The fact is, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal. Research on embryonic stem cells has taken place for years.
Virginia Foxx
#100. Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon.
Virginia Foxx
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