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I was a 'bathroom actor' and people used to laugh at me, listening to my lofty aims and ambitions.
I've had so many people tell me that they are shocked that AM radio still even exists with all the different listening options.
I made an a capella cover of Kesha when everyone else was listening to Miles Davis and people didn't like it. They imitated me.
To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
I'm listening to the audience. Too many people in Hollywood make what they want to see and not what we want to see. I'm about us. Not about me.
What people are tired of, the people who agree with me, what they're tired of is listening to that sound, the sound of the people who've given up.
Listening to the people, being a minister that goes to the cities, to the squares, to the stations, to the hospitals, for me is a duty and a pleasure.
Before Hollywood happened to me, I just took a break to think about whether I belong in the industry or whether I should be listening to whatever people were telling me.
I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.
I like getting older. I always looked younger than I was, and I found that people wouldn't give me the room to speak. The older I get, it's like, 'Oh, I'm still talking, and they're still listening.'
I mean, I don't like sitting at a table with seven or eight people asking me questions and kind of listening to what I'm doing - scrutinizing my thoughts and things like that. I just don't like it. I can't understand how anyone would.
You learn the most by listening and so, to me, always just listening, always just paying attention and finding out what it is that people see in somebody like them. You find those things, and you try to figure out how to fit them into who you are, who you want to be, and how you want to lead.