The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.
That’s the whole key to anything: Don’t be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.
Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
My girlfriend Rhonda, who’s now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, ‘You’ve got to do the right thing.’
My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that – a stern enforcer.
I’ve never been no superficial cat.
I’ve been in training for stardom.
You’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.
I think a lot of TV insults the audience.
I know doing movies is where I need to be. That’s where my audience wants to see me.
I have so much respect for what’s funny.
I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
I ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
Shut up before I drop yo ass off at Koreatown. Now hold on, America, don’t start writing no letters. I’m just kidding. But am I lying?
Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you’ve learned your lesson.
I want people to say at the end of my day, you know, like I used to say about Sidney Poitier and James Cagney and Joan Crawford and Red Skelton and those guys and Bill Cosby. They did quality and substance. You always remember them.
Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.
As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets – but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.
I have Glocks, .45s, Berettas, Remingtons. I like the marksmanship and the discipline that it takes to be a gun owner. I like the machinery. Being able to take it out and clean it is even more fascinating than having the gun.
I hate to compare anything, especially while I’m promoting. I feel that’s another disrespect, but ‘Ocean’s 13’ is the best movie I’ve ever done in my life. No question.