Columbus Short

“I've never put my hands on a woman, physically, ever.”

“Everybody who knows me is like, 'Dude, you've got to chill out.' I can't not work, given where I want to be.”

“I think there's a time when your personal life gets magnified by who we are as celebrities.”

“You've got to be honest with yourself aesthetically about who could you play. You want to artistically be true to that character.”

“I want to provide jobs for people.”

“I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I'm not selling out.”

“When you do an action movie, you've got to come prepared to do an action movie.”

“I just can't relax. That's my problem.”

“I'm afraid of what happens if this career doesn't pan out, because I have so much invested in it that I can't turn back now.”

“I love working to push the industry forward.”

“It's like, if you're on a ship, and you're sailing towards your destination, but the ship sinks: that doesn't mean that you have to sink. Just because the ship sinks doesn't mean you have to sink. You just figure it out until a raft comes along, and God will send you a raft. Or He'll send you another boat to get you to your destination.”

“Creating content, creating art, material, being a job creator - it's all very, very important. Very important.”

“There comes a time when you have to exercise patience.”

“Little Walter and Muddy Waters were incredible. And Bo Diddley was doing some great stuff, too.”

“I've always been apprehensive about doing comic books, period.”

“I haven't been perfect.”

“If I want to be truthfully honest, I think, dealing with the stress of the situations that I've been going through, medicating with anything, I think, is dangerous because it becomes a crutch.”

“There's a myriad of things that go into why movies don't happen right when you make them. If you make a movie in 2010, sometimes it takes up to a year for post-production, and that puts you into 2011, then you have to figure out what your product is, and that takes some time.”

“There are as many quality African-American actors and actresses as Caucasians, but it seems that they get a lot more opportunities.”

“I never want to have to take certain roles, because I want to maintain a certain level of artistic credibility. But sometimes you're forced to do things for the money.”