Quotes

The conventions of an almighty agency tapping you for greatness and signing you up and telling you this is going to be the next big thing; that has not been my career.

You need fans in high places, I always tell people. I don't care how talented you are.

You have to be respectful of pop culture, because people interpret it in the way they want.

Writing is still on my slate.

I've been in this business 31 years. I've never had a movie deal.

[1999, on his role as Steve Urkel on Family Matters (1989)] If you ever see me do that character again, take me out and put a bullet in my head and put me out of my misery.

We live in an era now where people are just ferociously out to be a big deal, but there were still enough innocent characters in the 90s fame game who were just themselves, good people, everybody loved them, and they fell into this life, and Michelle Thomas is that for me.

[about Michelle Thomas] Michelle had a lot of opportunities to sell her soul to the devil to start climbing a little faster, and she just wasn't that girl.