Top 66 Hill Harper Quotes

I’ve made money in real estate, hotel, and restaurant investments.

Voting is an individual, personal thing.

You’re in a situation where you have limited education opportunities, you don’t have any money, you can’t get a job; what are you going to do? You’re going to go back to this criminal network that you actually made while you were in prison.

The thing about our country, Americans, and New Yorkers in particular, we all want to help. There’s real folks who want to help. The problem is, they don’t know how. They don’t know how to get involved.

Many of us are in are in our own prisons that aren’t made of iron bars.

I will not reach my full potential as a man unless I find my partner.

The media is convincing people that if you have that ‘next thing,’ that diamond, the right car, then you’d be happier.

You’re writing your life as you go – the question becomes, how do you want to write your life?

No matter how bad something gets, no matter where you come from, you can achieve anything. I really do believe that.

It’s heartening when people hear for the first time that their vote really matters.

I think the number one safe haven where people put their money is to invest in yourself first.

Screening for colon cancer can stop cancer in its tracks.

If you can’t get excited about living life, then what are you doing?

So many of our young women today, they’re growing up without a father, but they’re still thirsty for that and desiring positive male love.

My undergraduate studies at Brown and graduate degrees from Harvard prepared me for a multifaceted career as an actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

We’re living in a time, unfortunately, where, you know, a lot of young men, particularly young men of color, being raised by single mothers. And their mothers so desperately want to connect with them, but I found, in talking with a lot of young men, that sometimes it’s difficult.

I’ve done romantic comedy, and I don’t get to flex that muscle often.

People always think about what prison is. What prison really is – it’s not a physical challenge, it’s mental.

On ‘CSI: NY,’ the audience knew I was a really good guy, and I caught the bad guy.

I love making films, but the best roles are hard to come by.

Most people aren’t honest with themselves about money.

Whenever there’s an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to encourage other writers to write and encourage folks to read more and get connected to it in a personal way, it’s a positive thing.

What I’ve found in doing research is that men want a relationship that feels fun. In other words, they want a relationship that has qualities or elements of their same-sex relationships – just like women do, too.

I’ve read a number of relationship books out there. A lot are written towards women.

My parents both are physicians, and my grandfathers were both physicians.

I believe we all have the capacity to be masters of many things, and there’s nothing that we can’t do. You can be a great actor and also be a great writer. There’s so many things that all of us have the capacity to do. But somehow, life tries to convince us that we’d be lucky to do even one thing well, and I disagree.

Let me tell you, if you’re ever making a decision and the principle reason you’ll do it is because of money, then it is absolutely the incorrect decision.

I’m really proud of the characters I’ve been able to play. Certainly, playing the character on ‘CSI’ as Dr. Sherman Hawkes is a wonderful stereotype-busting role.

‘The Conversation’ will hopefully touch on issues that will move people to want to strengthen communication and look to each other for solutions.

Many of us are walking around living smaller lives than we’re meant to live. Don’t allow yourself to dream smaller than you were meant to dream.

I say ‘date potential.’ The reason why is no matter who you date, anyway, five years from now, you’re going to be different, and he’s going to be different. The key is to really find somebody that you can grow with that you can change with, evolve with and that you can be partners with.

Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that’s what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren’t friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship.

I’m not the biggest star in the world, but I do have a platform, and if I can use that platform to help somebody else, why wouldn’t I?

It’s important for someone like me – who’s known Obama for 20 years – to speak the truth. I know him to be a Christian man. I know him to be one of the greatest patriots.

You never know what’s going on in someone’s life. You never know what’s really going on behind what they present.

The wealth cure is looking at your life step by step – making a diagnosis and saying, ‘Am I using money or is money using me?’

My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute mentor for me.

I’m not telling anyone, ‘Quit your job and be homeless to go for your dream.’

Roles make the actor.

Certainly, those of us in the entertainment industry, we are part of creating fear in people – ‘fear’ for me stands for ‘false evidence appearing real.’ We create fantasy, and in certain ways that’s wonderful because it allows people to escape. But it can suck people into wanting to achieve something that isn’t real.

You can’t build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.

I’ve gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to stay and build healthy relationships has had on the black family and black children.

The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first.

The real important things are kindness and a sense of humor. I’ve been fortunate to have dated and could have easily married women who have those qualities, and time and circumstances didn’t work out. Timing plays a big part.

Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office.

I would suggest that folks who have a platform of so-called celebrity, to the extent that they don’t use that platform, or if they just use it for their own self-aggrandizement, it is certainly fed in a way that it goes to waste.

I love being athletic and doing things that are active, even when I’m traveling.

People always want to think that because you’re not from a certain circumstance, you can’t relate. That’s ridiculous.

You deserve a great life. I want to see you become unreasonably happy. And you can. And you will.

Obviously, this whole ‘no child left behind’ idea is more rhetoric than actual practice.

I’m not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.

There are so many actors that I meet that don’t act enough. Definitely take class, definitely train – that’s the most important thing you do. Build your craft. Become better.

The most impactful place that I’ve been to where I was just completely awestruck, happy, moved is Victoria Falls between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is probably the most beautiful and romantic place in the world.

People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government.

We all have inherited so many types of fears, whether they’re race-based, culture-based, gender-based, age-based, family-based. And then we get comfortable with these fears.

Credit card interest payments are the dumbest money of all.

Whatever your calling is as a service, follow it – that’s beautiful.

If you have a debt issue or credit card issue, start dealing with it. If you have a tax issue, don’t just say, ‘I’m not going to file.’ There are ways to deal with these things, but you must communicate with your creditors, whether it’s a credit card company or tax department.

When I was dealing with cancer, I was working on a book about finances. I realized that the same methodology that the doctors were using to cure me, you could use to cure your finances. Health and wealth are so linked, it’s amazing.

We all have different timetables in reaching and realizing that being in healthy partnership is better than being on our own.

Without writers, none of the entertainment would exist. It starts with writers. Writers are the most important piece of the entire puzzle.

My favorite vacation spot is a beautiful beach. I’ve been to many, many beaches on many continents: Mombasa, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados, Mexico and the U.S. What’s beautiful about beach communities is for whatever reason, they feel like vacation to me.

Part of the problem I find with money books is that there’s this whole set of money books that make you feel almost guilty to spend a dollar.

Part of the problem in today’s world is that many men are taught that they have to ‘make it’ before they should even consider committed to a healthy partnership.

You can live a healthy lifestyle and do the best to be aware of your body and conscious, and that’s what I attempt to do.

Dr. King said, ‘We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.’ Which says to me no matter how well I may be doing in Hollywood, if a young brother or sister in Louisiana, the South Bronx, the South Side of Chicago, South Central Los Angeles – is not doing well, then I’m not doing very well.