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• I understand it all. I can write my own ticket for one or two movies. But if they're not the right ones, my ticket gets yanked. I understand that's how it works, and I'm okay with it.
• I'm not a prude. On the set, they called me 'Butt Naked.'
• It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story.
• Jonathan Lynn is one of the last actors Orsen Welles used in a production. It was wonderful. He's very sharp, very sharp. It's funny I've been asked how weird it was to have a Brit do a church gospel movie.
• My wife and I have been together since 1986. I graduated in '86 and she graduated in '88. We began dating when she was 17. Actually she turned 18 when we started kissing and stuff.
• Now, I have big-money offers on three movies, and I have director approval. That's kind of scary,' he says. 'No directors have been attached. That's a lot of pressure on me.
• The Academy Awards was an amazing night. I know I kind of lost my mind a little bit. I apologize for that. That night went so fast; I can't remember what I said or what happened.
• The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked.
• There are roles I want that my agency might not want me to do because of the subject matter or whatever. Or there are roles that people won't bring to me because they don't think I'll do it. And that is a big strain because an actor wants to act.
Cuba Gooding Jr Career Highlights
1988 -Coming to America
1989 -Judgement
1989 -Sing
1991 -Boyz n the Hood
1992 -Gladiator
1992 -A Few Good Men
1993 -Daybreak
1993 -Judgment Night
1994 -Lightning Jack
1995 -Outbreak
1995 -The Tuskegee Airmen
1995 -Losing Isaiah
1996 -Jerry Maguire
1997 -As Good as It Gets
1997 -Do Me a Favor
1998 -What Dreams May Come
1998 -A Murder of Crows
1999 -Instinct
1999 -Chill Factor
2000 -Men of Honor
2001 -Pearl Harbor
2001 -Rat Race
2001 -In the Shadows
2002 -Snow Dogs
2003 -Boat Trip
2003 -The Fighting Temptations
2003 -Radio
2004 -Home on the Range
2005 -Dirty
2005 -Shadowboxer
2006 -End Game
2006 -Lightfield's Home Videos
2007 -Norbit
2007 -What Love Is
2007 -The Comebacks
2007 -Daddy Day Camp
2007 -American Gangster
2007 -The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends
2008 -Hero Wanted
2008 -Harold
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