Chapter 1: What insights does Terrence Howard share about Hollywood's culture?
Denzel, he told me, look at your hands, man. You're always like this. All these producers want to do is they're trying to open your hand so they can put money in it. But you won't do it. You're in Hollywood. It's a hookup culture. I've dated them, but I never slept with anybody inside. You never slept with anybody? Nobody inside the business.
A healthy male still produces about 1,500 sperm per heartbeat. So that desire to empty the storehouse is always there.
The lines you use, I love it. I'd love to empty my storehouse with you today. How different is it raising boys versus girls?
Girls are the hardest because men have game. I watch my daughters now and I'm scared to death because of the karma because I know the things that I did to women. So I have to make sure none of this stuff is around. And mind you, I didn't masturbate until I was 25 years old. I had them remove the television out of the room of the hotel because I couldn't stop. I couldn't stop. I kept watching it.
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Did you ever think you would make it?
I feel I'm supposed to take sweet victory. I know this life meant for me.
Adam, what's your point? The future looks bright. A handshake is better than anything I ever signed. Right here. You are a one-on-one? My son's right there.
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Chapter 2: How does Terrence Howard view parenting and masculinity?
But you find yourself still back into those places and you have to catch yourself, especially with the laws that's out here today. So now, because I got the The benefit had the benefit of, you know, doing some discipline before. Now, if I'm walking upstairs to get the belt, then they straighten themselves out and I don't have to actually apply the belt. But it's hard.
How do you raise young boys, you know, that are indomitable to respect authority and respect themselves? And, you know, it's a tight balance.
How different is it, you know, raising boys versus girls?
The girls are the hardest. The girls are the hardest because they're a little more manipulative. They're smarter. You know, the child inside the womb, the moment that the woman's body recognizes the little girl, about three months of gestation, it floods it with estrogen.
And so it causes these connections between the left and right hemisphere almost three to five times the connections from what I've read that men have. Men have this myopic thing, see this, go and do it. But girls contemplate everything. So the girls are so much smarter naturally than the men, and they learn how to manipulate. They learn to cry. They learn the smiles. They learn all of that.
And then they're gullible because they think they've mastered men by mastering manipulation. Daddy. And they go out and they try and do that into the world. So letting my two older daughters go. I watch my daughters now and I'm,
scared to death because of the karma because i know the things that i did to women when i was growing up stuff i wouldn't want somebody doing to my daughter that's just the reality we don't you know like me and my wife we talk and she's like i would love to make love i would love to make love i said nobody's going to be sitting there talking about you are so beautiful singing that while they're making love i said there's it's more of an aggressive act in some way and maybe it's the things that i've watched but you
Singing while making love.
Yeah, you know. I'm just trying to vision. You know. Man, you'd think some of these R&B guys could pull it off like Kevin Campbell or Keith Switzer.
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Chapter 3: What rules does Terrence Howard establish for his children?
I dated a lot of girls. I dated a lot of them. But at the time, still, I was battling between being a Jehovah's Witness or trying to study as a Jehovah's Witness. But there's a feeling of you know what is your prey. You know who has that interaction with you, and the girls are beautiful.
No fantasy of wanting to be a Hollywood couple? Like, what if her and I, you never thought about it that way?
No, that was never on the table for me.
You see Jay-Z with Beyoncé. You see these couples where it's like, you know.
I had a chance to date Beyoncé, you know, early on, and we had a conversation, you know, and I ended up... talking to the other girl inside of, you know, Destiny, the girl with the blue eyes.
And I remember Beyonce looking over at me, and I think that's why she picked me to do that dance when she did the, you know, the kind of striptease dance that we did at BETs or whatever, to show me what I had lost. But I was attracted. There was a moment in which I felt something there. With Beyonce. Yeah, but that was long before she was with Jay-Z. That was... Very, very long ago.
I mean, they were big back then when they were coming out. They were very big when they were coming out.
Destiny's Child.
Destiny's Child, yeah.
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Chapter 4: How does Terrence Howard reflect on his past relationships and encounters?
She's like, wow, you're handsome, but not in this lifetime. Maybe the next one.
Maybe. She'll say that.
Yeah. Maybe the next one.
Not in this lifetime. Maybe in the next one.
Yeah. And it's a nice way of, you know, being flattered and also being let down gently.
So marriage and parenting, both questions. You know, when I'm building my national business, I was building an insurance agency. So I was on the road for six months out of the year going to all those other places. You're on the road all the time. When you do movies, I'm assuming, I don't know the life, I'm assuming you're on the road making movies.
How do you manage that and parent and relationship, marriage? How do you manage those? It's got to be super difficult.
Well, the hardest thing is when you take your family on the road with you, you're not able to completely commit to the character. You're trying to, but you come home and then you have to be husband. You have to be father. You have to be all of those things. But when you don't have your family there, you're kind of open to the wind. You know, everybody wants to hang out with you.
So I've had to, my wife, she'll let me go to the job the first few days by myself so I can lock in maybe a week. But then after that, she comes back. But she gives me a lot of space, and sometimes she'll give me a separate place because they'll provide a house for me.
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Chapter 5: How did studying the Bible influence Terrence Howard's life?
I just started studying the Bible and really coming around to who I would ultimately become. And She ended up having a train ran on her by my friends, you know, because I didn't want to have sex with her. I didn't know she was a freak. I didn't know that she was trying to be free like this.
You don't know her reputation?
No. She didn't have a reputation at the time, but she was ready to explore. So the train had happened? No, it happened. She's thinking about it. Yeah. It happened after, because I wouldn't do something with her. So that's what I'm saying. I would have the ones that I loved, I didn't want to touch. The ones that were special, I didn't want to touch. But I was treating other people's child.
Yeah, like, oh, well, she's not somebody I want to marry or anything like that.
Did any father ever find out and come and get you? No. I wish they did. A brother, nothing?
I wish they did.
Really?
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Chapter 6: What experiences shaped Terrence Howard's views on masculinity and relationships?
Really. No, because they were... What would be the number?
How many girls would you say from 4 to 13?
Oh, at least 100. At least 100.
From 4 to 13, at least 100?
Mm-hmm. Oh, my goodness.
And you don't want... It's not something that you... You're sitting there looking at your life like, wow. So that's what made a difference for me when I got older. I didn't want... You know, when I would be next to these people, I knew that feeling of taking that walk.
A lot of people didn't explore sexuality enough to where they had an opportunity, you know, to sow their wild oats at that earlier age. But it's literally, it's how the system, the government has been set up to where the father and the mother are not at home. There's no caretakers taking care of looking after, you know, the most important part of the family anymore.
At that time when that's going on, would you, I have like 50 questions, sexually transmitted, did anybody get anything? Anything and nothing? None of those things happened. Did you witness older men coming in and taking advantage of younger girls or no?
No, but what I did see, well, there would be some 16-year-olds, you know, messing with younger girls. But that was all normalized inside of the community. It did not... That was just the transaction. That was how we played. I thought it was normal.
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Chapter 7: What are Terrence Howard's thoughts on the entertainment industry's influence?
And you guys called it a game? Yeah. You know, let's play hide and go get.
And you're saying that to like three girls are with you, you're saying that? Or is it you and your buddies and three girls there?
It's like about eight of us hanging out and, you know, we'd all like hide and go seek, but it was hide and go get. And you would decide pants up or pants down. And that's... I would hate for my child to be doing that this day. And it causes you to forget most of your childhood because you don't want to remember. You don't want to remember those things.
But those are the things that painted me, you know, with my father being sent off to prison, with my mother trying to have the career instead of... taking care of us because she didn't get the career that she wanted. What did she want to do? She ended up graduating from college and all that, but she wanted to be an actress. She wanted to be a journalist. She wanted to be all of that stuff.
That didn't happen for her. And she lost being able to protect her sons. Because now all my brothers are Jehovah's Witnesses. They've made different choices in their life. But I know that those thoughts still go through their head of the choices that we made when we were younger. And you're just a little more overprotective. a lot more overprotective, you know, about who you are.
And I look forward to the next lifetime of not remembering it anymore.
Did you guys ever run into each other? Did you ever run into any of the girls? No, I haven't been back to Cleveland. You've never been back to Cleveland? I've gone there, but I've gone to San Francisco. Not walking through any... I can only imagine. Like, you ever seen the movie The Judge with Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall?
You know how he goes back to the town he grew up in and he never wanted to go back and he runs into the girl, his ex, at the bar and he left? When you go back, you don't see any of these old friends.
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Chapter 8: How does Terrence Howard view the future of the U.S. economy and global relations?
No. And that's why I was explaining to my daughters that if I bumped into girls that I had interaction with, I wouldn't even know their face or name. That's pretty wild. Hi, everyone. My name is Terrence Howard. I'm an actor, but in the field of science also. So if you would like to connect with me, you can connect with me on Manect. The QR code is down below. And let's have a great conversation.
So your mom inspired you to get into the movie business?
Yeah. And how did that happen? Because she wanted to be an actress and I thought if I became an actor, I would get her affection. I would, because she doted over my younger brother Antonio and wanted him to be an actor. So I thought if I became an actor, she would, you know, I would, Get that love from her. What did Antonio end up doing? He's a contractor now.
He's a contractor.
Yeah, practicing witness.
Practicing witness.
Yeah, he's... Good for him. He's maintained... Good relationship, you guys. Yeah, we have a great relationship, but... Are 11 of you guys all close? Most of us are. Great. There's a lot of communication, but then the younger ones are kind of... getting their own thing out there. I don't have as much in common with my brothers anymore because I'm not a witness.
And they're still trying to, you know, proselytize in a way. And I'm trying to open their eyes to, let's look at some of the statistics, some of the facts, you know, from the scriptures. If every word is supposed to be the word of God, if you find one mistake in there, then you've got to throw the entire thing out. The entire thing becomes questionable.
And like I said, I'm not questioning the divinity of God, but I do question how we've been taught in our belief systems. I think our belief systems, it's time to raise them and take the allegories that we can, but we need to start basing things on actual fact.
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