Top 21 Quotes & Sayings by Ernie Hudson

I think it's important to find the joy in your work and the things that sort of renew that.

But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?

You go down to Skid Row and you see literally hundreds of people and not just men, but women and children as well. It's really a tragedy that our society has come to that.

I find that the more I begin to look around, I see so much good that people do that goes unnoticed. So many wonderful things.

When I finally decided that my only hope was to go to college, I took an acting class, and once I walked onstage, I just knew I was home.

What celebrities hope is that people identify not so much that they're particularly special or different, but they identify with them. We represent life in general, the guy who does whatever.

Once I committed to acting, this has been it.

What I get from my study of the Bible is that we're all in Christ, that we're all the same in God's eyes.

It's a hard call, but I've no desire to live my children's lives. I think my job as a father is to protect them, to allow them a safe place to grow up and to teach them what I've learned.

After all these years, almost 30 years later, whenever I'm on the street, someone will call out, 'Who you gonna call?'

The truths that are found in the Bible are universal truths. And it shapes who you are and guides you throughout your life.

Every once in a while as an actor, you do something that the kids really like.

There are those who spend their lives studying it and those who spend their lives doing it.

When someone asks if you're a god, you say YES!

I'm old-school. I like action, but I want to see somebody fall in love. I want to see that life stuff.

But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?.

For me, what's wonderful for me at this stage of my life is that I get to work with people I've admired for a long time.

The fulfilling of who you are and your purpose for being here is not found outside, it's trusting God to move you, to inspire you.

Recently, I was giving a speech and I said that it's time for many of us to "go home." Not necessarily to move back home but rather to go back to our communities and support those outreach programs and those people who could use our assistance.

If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say.

When we come together and appreciate each other, that's always a positive thing; a step in the right direction. That is what the NAACP Image Awards do. If we can just come together and love each other, that's important. I do feel like there's a lack of love but oddly enough, we blame the lack of love on other people not loving and appreciating our accomplishments. But the real reality is we haven't loved and appreciated our own accomplishments.