Wesley Snipes Quotes

I’m not looking at an action movie as something where I just jump around and look beautiful and show my muscles. Since there are so few people that do this and have that pedigree, people disregard their contribution.

I’m a physical type of actor and love projects in which I can get physical. The more action, the better.

A lot of the cats I grew up with in the South Bronx found themselves in sticky situations.

I’m a good mimic.

I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.

Well, I’m an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.

I think that all of us, as Americans, are due due process and have a right to a fair trial, and have a right to be considered innocent until proven guilty. I think that is the American way and it’s the foundation upon which this country was built.

I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.

I love being a dad, it keeps me fit and inspired and children are so funny. They always supply you with acting material!

I mainly buy books in my free time.

I like to read about different religions – Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism.

A lot of people now don’t know I’ve been on Broadway.

I was very short when I was little, so I probably had – and there may be a residue of it now – that Napoleon complex. Wanting to be as big and as powerful as the big guys.

Nobody wants to get locked up, although ‘locked up’ is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.

I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it’s the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that’s why I’m attracted to it.

I’ve come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren’t comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It’s a contradiction.

The first time I jumped from a plane, I screamed like a woman. I was two miles up and you could hear me clear as day. Now I love it.

I had acne late, in college. My skin used to be really flawless. Went to college, became a vegetarian, ate a lot of cheese – big mistake. Here I am trying to be healthy and I’m eating grilled cheese sandwiches and french fries every day, having mad eruptions all over my face.

I don’t see myself as extremely handsome. I just figure I can charm you into liking me.

I think I have kind of a natural magnetism.