Shemar Moore

“That's because I didn't have to work with Madea. I only had to work with Madea once, and that was at the barbecue and I didn't have to get close to her.”

“I could run, but I was throwing 93 mph coming out of high school.”

“You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of - my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn't raise me as a black man. She didn't raise me as a white guy.”

“It's no accident that I'm not married and don't have kids yet.”

“No week is ever the same in my world! An average week in my life changes based on my shooting schedule, if I'm promoting a project, or anything else I have going on.”

“Each morning needs to start with a good sweat. I'm either working out at home or on set, depending on my call time.”

“I'm a drama guy.”

“I don't want to be an old dad.”

“I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional baseball player, but I got injured in college. When I decided to move out to L.A. to try acting, nobody was betting on me, not even my family. But it's always been that way for me; nothing has come easy.”

“I think because people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing at - I don't say a great pace, but it seems like people are dropping, and I think it's just making - there's a consciousness and there's sensitivity to it.”

“Now that I've established myself in a drama, I'm plugging away, trying to get the attention of people who do the independent movies and the features.”

“I hosted Soul train but I listen to everything.”

“But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher.”

“I still have shy qualities but nobody would believe that, just because we're in the forefront and I can talk a lot of mess and I can run my mouth.”

“I'm raised by a single mom and didn't have pops around for the most part of my life. And she, by any means necessary, gave me the best opportunities that she knew how to give me.”

“I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence.”

“I'm very proud to be black, but I'm just as much black as I am white. But I want tell stories that everybody can relate to, so I don't care who's opposite me.”

“Well, you can't compete with a six foot five man in a wig.”

“Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.”

“We never get enough of falling in love and believing in love.”