I've reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I've gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy.

He also played a drug dealer in the 1994 film Sugar Hill. Snipes was originally slated to play one of the four leads in Spike Lee's 2008 war film Miracle at St. 132 an elementary school in The Bronx.

In 2010 Snipes began serving a three-year prison sentence in McKean County Pennsylvania for misdemeanor failure to file U. Snipes is known for playing the Marvel Comics character Blade in the Blade film trilogy among various other high-profile roles.