Terrence Howard

I just wanted to be a scientist

— Terrence Howard

Dating black women will ruin your life

— Terrence Howard

Don't just view me as an actor

— Terrence Howard

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

— Terrence Howard

If evolution works, why are monkeys still around?

— Terrence Howard

My future's about trying to be a better man

— Terrence Howard

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

— Terrence Howard

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

— Terrence Howard

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

— Terrence Howard

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

— Terrence Howard

I found from working on the film that I am a bigot, at times. And that I am also a coward, at…

— Terrence Howard

They say everybody gets 15 minutes. I hope I'm just inside the first minute and the next 14 go really slow.

— Terrence Howard

My father always said that if you want oranges, you have to go to where the oranges grow.

— Terrence Howard

And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula

— Terrence Howard

The Oscar is the fantasy that you're afraid to believe in, but in the secrecy of your little dark room, you dream…

— Terrence Howard

I like women who look like me. Generally, you're attracted to women who look like you, because the most beautiful thing in…

— Terrence Howard

The truth is, the personal ends up becoming part of your professional. As an actor, much of your work happens at home…

— Terrence Howard

We call the Creator father, because we rely upon Him to protect us, guide us, feed us, keep us warm, to discipline…

— Terrence Howard

In the Twenties, it wasn't a remarkable thing for a singer to be an actor, or even to be involved in politics.…

— Terrence Howard

When you feel betrayed by someone that you trust the most... As an actor, you look for something that's going to let…

— Terrence Howard

I'm trying to make enough money where I can be financially independent and be able to go and just pursue that thing…

— Terrence Howard

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know

— Terrence Howard

Every role you play is literally - and I've said this before - every single role that you play, the only way…

— Terrence Howard

Toilet paper - and no baby wipes - in the bathroom. If they're using dry paper, they aren't washing all of themselves.…

— Terrence Howard

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…

— Terrence Howard

But George Lucas is carrying about Black actors, about Black men, about Black history, which really incorporates and tells all of history.…

— Terrence Howard

I knew that one movie could either kill my career or give birth to it. It's the same thing with Nelson. If…

— Terrence Howard

As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we…

— Terrence Howard

If we [black people] do not show up and support the march towards cinematic equality, the march towards being on a level…

— Terrence Howard

The most important thing I can teach my kids is that you can't put your value in looks. Presence is based upon…

— Terrence Howard

You keep knocking on the devil's door long enough and sooner or later someone's gonna answer you.

— Terrence Howard

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

— Terrence Howard

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

— Terrence Howard

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.

— Terrence Howard

I want to be the condensation on the glass. I want to be that phenomenon that takes place between hot and cold.

— Terrence Howard

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

— Terrence Howard

If you're not going to do your job, get out of here. Don't mess up my work. This is how I feed…

— Terrence Howard

You just drop a character like this that and the other and it's done.

— Terrence Howard

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

— Terrence Howard

I'm damn near 37 years old, and I'm jumping up and down on the bed like my 10-year-old. I was a wild man

— Terrence Howard