I’m so unfamiliar with the gym, I call it James!
If you want to get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring-cleaning. Or you can do what I do. Move.
Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it’s worse when you see them wearing dark glasses, having streamers around their necks and a hat on their antlers. Because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot.
So many people prefer to live in drama because it’s comfortable. It’s like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship – it’s actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.
I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
I don’t consider myself an interviewer as much as an entertainer.
Things will get easier, people’s minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.
I talked to Beyonce and she wants to learn how to speak Arabic and she wants to jump out of an airplane. I don’t want to do that. I just don’t want to wash my hair every day.
I used to beat myself up about weight and working out, and no matter what I did I never felt good about myself. I decided to accept myself and know that I am good.
I think anybody who wants to be president has to be a politician, but I would like to find somebody who’s coming from a loving place instead of a political place.
If someone ever says you’re weird, say thank you.
I watch people’s behavior and notice things. I think that’s why I became a comedian. I notice how stupid the things we do are.
If anybody could put themselves in that situation of feeling a giant loud voice saying you don’t deserve the same rights, you are different and you are not equal, it feels really bad.
I had done a sitcom and a movie and hosted the Emmys, and all of a sudden, I lost everything. As someone put it at the time, I was suddenly like a Ferrari in neutral.
The sixties were when hallucinogenic drugs were really, really big. And I don’t think it’s a coincidence that we had the type of shows we had then, like The Flying Nun.
Have you seen the deer heads on the walls of bars, the ones wearing party hats, sunglasses and streamers? I feel sorry for them because obviously they were at a party having a good time...
No, we can’t be friends. You’re my mom. You’re what i talk to my friends about.
I get paid very well for an amazing, amazing life. I’m blessed.
If success is really dependent on someone liking you or not liking you, and you have to teeter on that kind of tightrope of how you’re supposed to act and how you’re supposed to look and who you are, it’s just not a healthy way to live.
For a long time I thought I knew for sure who I was. I grew up in New Orleans and became a comedian. And there was everything that came along with that. The nightclubs. The smoking. The drinking. Then I turned 13.