#465: Jamie Foxx on Workout Routines, Success Habits, and Untold Hollywood Stories (Repost)
The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig
4.6 • 17.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2020
⏱️ 158 minutes
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Summary
Jamie Foxx (@iamjamiefoxx) is an Academy Award-winning actor, a Grammy Award-winning musician, and a famous standup and improv comedian. He is, without a doubt, the most consummate performer and entertainer I have ever met. In the 2.5 hours we spent together in his home studio, he blew my mind.
We cover a TON in this wide-ranging episode, including many never-before-heard stories. Here’s just a tiny sample of what you’ll hear:
- Jamie’s workout routine
- Jamie’s origin stories — how he used $400 to match a $1,000,000 party thrown by Puff Daddy; building up his network with Kanye, Jay Z, and Pharrell; expanding his fan base; and bombing horribly at the beginning
- What he learned during the magic of In Living Color
- Jamie playing live music throughout our interview
- Impersonations (and lessons learned from many of the following) — Quincy Jones, Ed Sheeran, Ray Charles, Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Doc Rivers, Kermit the Frog, Sammy Davis, Jr., LeBron James, Bill Clinton, Tamara Rawitt, Shawn Wayans, Jim Carrey, Oprah Winfrey, Norman Lear, Mike Tyson, and others
- The key skills Jamie learned from his grandmother
- Jamie’s parenting style
- Check out the show notes for much, much more.
Enjoy!
This episode originally aired in 2015. You can find the show notes here: https://tim.blog/2015/12/06/jamie-foxx/
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