“I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent.”
Leslie William Nielsen

“A black dude who plays a slave that gets his ass whipped gets the nomination, a white guy who plays an idiot gets the Oscar. I need to play a retarded slave, then I'll get the Oscar.”
Eddie Murphy - Kit Ramsey

“If black people did movies, my premise is that movies would be much shorter, because they wouldn't waste time with a lot of excess shit.”
Richard Pryor

“Beauty is not just a white girl.”
Queen Latifah

“I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies.”
Don Cheadle