Omar Epps Net Worth

Omar Epps's Quotes

• [1999, in an interview in "Newsday"] I'm going to be the first black President of the United States. If [Ronald Reagan can do it, I know I can.
• I've been writing since I was a kid. Short stories, poetry, and all of that, and acting is just an extension of that. It just came naturally. So it's coming full circle.
• People don't want to pay eight or nine dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
• The only limitations that I can have are the ones that I set on myself.
• The whole Black Hollywood thing doesn't exist for me anymore. Once someone says that to themselves, they subject themselves to those rules.

Interesting Facts about Omar Epps

1. Is a member of a hip-hop group called Wolfpak, which he formed with his cousin in 1991.
2. Began writing poetry at age ten.
3. Attended the Fiorello LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts in New York, NY, a school formed from the merger of two New York City high schools for the arts, one of which was the school on which the movie and TV show, Fame (1980), was based.
4. He and actor Marlon Wayans have been friends since childhood.
5. July 2004: Daughter K'mari Mae born. Mother is fiancée (now wife) Keisha Spivey.
6. Was a back-up dancer for Queen Latifah.
7. Appeared in in the magazine article "Can't a Brother Get No Love?" which appeared in the August 1999 issue of Vibe.
8. In 1994, he switched to baseball as co-star of Major League II (1994), taking over the role of "Willie Mays Hayes" from originator Wesley Snipes.
9. Had the name Quincey in two films, Juice (1992) and Love & Basketball (2000).
10. He stared in Blackstreet's music video "Before I Let You Go" (1994).