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“Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.”
“I travel. I do a lot of traveling around the world.”
“I've got a big closet of scripts, and a big stack of scripts on the side of my desk, because you get a whole bunch. Nothing's going to be perfect, and I realize that; but I am a perfectionist, so you go through a lot of stuff.”
“My mom raised me to never have anything control me.”
“I think my life is a movie and your life reflects your work.”
“I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.”
“Day-to-day life is a lot of work. I work a lot on stand-up stuff, and then day-to-day life and, you know, just living. It's always different. Try to work out, try to stay in shape, and try to have some fun.”
“You know, we're missing so much as African-Americans and we should be concerned about what's going on in Africa.”
“I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I've done, I'm going to do a lot of great work in the future.”
“I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.”
“I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.”
“Georgia was a great place to live, but I wanted to get out because I knew the opportunities for what I was doing - stand-up comedy and eventually acting - were in Los Angeles.”
“I do a lot of traveling around the world.”
“You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don't say nothin' 'bout the money. 'Hi, how ya doin'? How's ya mama doing?' Man, how's my money doin'?”
“Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me.”
“This country is just that great that the opportunities are there for a Hispanic president, a black president or any other race for a president, yes.”
“A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different.”
“I couldn't imagine not having clean water.”
“When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.”
“I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie roles you wanna pick. I think if you've got an interesting life, you wanna do interesting movies about interesting things.”