I don't even have any good skills. You know like nunchuck skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills. Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills!
Unfortunately, we are very poor with PR skills but in serving people- we are superhero.
I am not good with PR or in projecting a certain image of myself, and I don't give clarifications about rumours; that's it.
One day I woke up with an atrocious hangover, and it hurt so badly that I told myself, 'It's time to stop. I can't do it anymore. It's not good. It hurts too much.'
The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.
I've never been good at selling myself.
The biggest PR hack you can do, is not hire a PR firm.
T-shirt and stretchy pants? Yup, that's fine. It's pajama-y, good night.
Do you know what the difference is between PR and advertising? Advertising is when you say how great you are. PR is when other people say how great you are. PR is better.
The best way to get anybody's attention is dinner. I have good kitchen skills and good grocery shopping skills.
If you want to be an actor today you have to come prepared with the entire package, which includes acting, dancing, action, PR skills, building your physique and all of it. Otherwise, nobody is going to touch you.
Industry people do know when a PR movement plays out. The issue is that it is an insult to our intelligence when those who are doing the PR thing presume that we are not wiser.
PR only works for big names, because they've already achieved something. If you're talking about an ordinary person, what would your PR machinery do where there's no product in the machine?
Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their children. Their English is atrocious. Their speaking is atrocious. The dropout rate is horrendous.
When I came to the industry, one PR person told me, 'Send a text message to this actor. Go on a date with him.' And I said, 'But he is married!' Then this person said, 'Why didn't you send a message to this cricketer? It would have been good for your career, for your PR and public image.'
I don't like to filter myself, but I do it for PR's sake.