Quotes

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 will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

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.

Traveling - even to Los Angeles - it was big... When I went out there with my country accent, people would laugh at the way I talk. They'd be like, "Say 'orange' again." I'd be like, "'Orange.' What?" Now, going around the world, it's such a great experience, I feel so blessed, because I get to see the world. I get a broad perspective of the world, and we've got so much here in America - and in Africa, there are places with no clean water, places with no schools, no hospitals. That really took me by surprise - well, educated me a lot. I would say in the last six years I've been doing a lot of educating myself about what's been going on in the world... Yeah, I just enjoy traveling, because that's how I educate myself, and there's nothing better than traveling to a place [to learn] about it.

[2024, joking on the confusion with Chris Rock]: Let me tell you why I'm pissed off about that slap with Will Smith and Chris Rock. They mixed me up in it. You know? Because we're Chris', they thought I got slapped. People were calling my mom's phone every night asking, 'Is Chris okay? I heard he got the sh*t slapped out of him,' 'Chris is right here rewinding the tape so I can see the slap. Now stop starting rumors'.