Damon Wayans

“I never thought about being famous.”

“And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.”

“And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.”

“But my kids, my brothers' kids - they think about trying to top what we did.”

“I was always the class clown and got kicked out of class at least once a day for just being a goofball. Not suspended or anything, just sit outside and look at the tree on the bench. I got benched a lot. You keep one foot on the bench and try to get as far away as possible.”

“Three high schools. I was funny. I thought I was being funny. I just had an opinion about everything that was said in school, so that got me thrown out.”

“I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.”

“It's hard for me to play this loving, supportive father/husband/ friend on TV but be the guy in life that is telling everyone, 'I can't. I have to work.'”

“I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.”

“Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.”

“We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories.”

“Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.”

“You've got to want it. I can give you a role. I can't give you a career.”

“Even in real life, sometimes you find that person you click with that you get irritated by every other person in the world but you can be around this person every day and you'd be fine with it.”

“My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.”