Sinbad

“I judged entertainers who worked county fairs at age 55 because they had to. Now I get it.”

“My job is to entertain you, leave feeling better than when you got there, and try to give you more than you thought you were gonna get.”

“I've been on the road since 1983. Nothing ever changed, even when I was doing TV and movies.”

“I was always a funny person. I thought I would play some good ball, and the Harlem Globetrotters would see me, and that would be it - fame.”

“I just want to make people laugh.”

“I'm under stress. They killed me on wikipedia. They killed me. And I didn't stay dead long enough to sell no DVDs. I didn't even stay dead long enough - I was too stupid. I should've stayed low. I should've laid low. I could've been gone for a year; I'd have made money. And then I'd have risen from the dead.”

“Don't let people treat you like you're stupid. If it sounds too good to be true, it is.”

“Some people think it's a reality that black fathers don't take care of their children, but that's not true.”

“I couldn't get roles as bad guys. They could see John Travolta as a gangster but not me, really. But, you know, that's just how things are.”

“Most entertainers start at a young age saying, 'I don't want to be normal. I don't want a regular job.'... I think that's something that's innate.”

“People think comedians don't do drama. Comics are drama. And what is drama, as opposed to comedy? It's all the same to me.”

“You can be too pretty for comedy - man or woman.”

“Everyone wants me to do the comedy thing. But I always wanted to do action adventure. I want to be a guy like 007 who fights against the establishment. If they can make Bruce Willis believable as an action hero, I could do it, too.”

“What holds you back in comedy is fear.”

“There is two different Donald Trumps. There is the Donald Trump of the '90s... Now you've got this other one. The post-dementia Donald Trump who just loves picking fights because, I think, he's a lonely man.”

“I don't believe in diets. I don't believe any diet ever works.”

“Take my gay-hairdresser routine. You'll let your hairdresser say things to you that you wouldn't let your parents say. My hairdresser will say the funniest things, so I asked him if I could put him in my routine - you know, make fun of him in a good way. He said, 'Oh, mention my name, mention my name!'”

“You don't meet many comics who came from rich families or were captain of the football team and had a nice car.”

“I'd say a lot of black comics were forced to do the black comedy circuit. I'd go into black comedy clubs and see what they're going through, which is different because they're almost made to be in another world.”

“I would be an activist but never a politician. As an activist, nobody owns you.”