Quote: A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts. [Omar Epps]
Quote: After my first film, I was like, damn, I'm not going to work probably for another five years, so that's been a blessing. [Omar Epps]
Quote: Before ER a lot of people knew my name and some people knew my face. I saw big difference after ER, like, wow, I didn't know television was that powerful. [Omar Epps]
Quote: Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us. [Omar Epps]
Quote: Cable has the balls to do what they want to do, the balls to tell the stories that need to be told. They don't have to worry about audiences, because they already have their viewership. [Omar Epps]
Quote: Each experience has offered something different in regards to story. I really didn't want to do any more sports films. And then, this comes along. How could I not take the opportunity? [Omar Epps]
Quote: Every year they have a New Black Hollywood. Where's white Hollywood? Or Asian Hollywood? People want to talk about race. [Omar Epps]
Quote: Football and boxing are my two favorite sports. [Omar Epps]
Quote: Getting hit was funny. One of my most memorable experiences was the first time I got hit by a jab and how it shook from the top of my spine to my Achilles tendon. [Omar Epps]
Quote: I actually had my first record deal before I had my first movie. I've been doing music my whole life. [Omar Epps]
Quote: I am an artist and I have an instrument that can be played beautifully. [Omar Epps]
Quote: I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that? [Omar Epps]
Quote: I definitely took bits and pieces of a lot of fighters that I liked, but I don't know if I have the ability to really do the Sugar Ray things. [Omar Epps]
Quote: I don't know if you saw the first Alfie, the Michael Caine film, but Jude's shagging everything in the city. [Omar Epps]
Quote: I don't want to be typecast as an athlete. [Omar Epps]
Quote: I feel like whatever you do in life, if it's what you love to do, and you can get paid for it, then it's a blessing. [Omar Epps]
Quote: I got a couple of TV ideas I'm working on now. I'm taking my time with writing because it's something you never stop learning, it's something you can always get better at. [Omar Epps]
Quote: I had known about Jackie Kallen's boxers, but I had no idea they were managed by a woman. [Omar Epps]
Quote: I like all sorts of foreign films. French filmmakers, Italians. You get what you can get. [Omar Epps]
Quote: I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks. [Omar Epps]
Quote: I never boxed before. When I was young, early teens, I took some martial arts and stuff, but the training on this was me learning from A to Z. [Omar Epps]
Quote: I really don't know how this happened, I'm not the biggest dude. I'm 5'10", buck-seventy, maybe. [Omar Epps]
Quote: I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs. [Omar Epps]
Quote: I took some lumps and bruises, but that's what we were there to do. Charles S. Dutton is an avid boxing fan and we wanted to sort of set a new standard for boxing films. [Omar Epps]