You don't know who you messing with man, I slap people for fun. That's what I do man! You wanna play rough, huh, I kill for fun!
I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.
My mom raised me to never have anything control me.
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.
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'?
Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It's a good thing. That's why I want to work.
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.
I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.
I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.
Everybody goes through a lot of the same things, and I talk about those, and that's the key. You have to connect with your audience, and I might take them on a trip with me, tell them I went here and I went there and they'll go with me, you know, to hear the stories.
It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.
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.
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 do a lot of traveling around the world.
I love traveling. It not only opens my mind up, but it also allows me to use my fame in another way through humanitarian works and stuff, and being an influence around the world.
I want to keep working, I want to keep doing my humanitarian stuff around the world, shining light on different places that have problems. Keep making movies, make people laugh.
A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different.
I travel. I do a lot of traveling around the world.
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.
