Black folks never bungie jump. That's too much like lynching for us. I'm gonna let you tie a rope around me and push me off a bridge? You must be out your damn mind.

One of the most beautiful things in the world I've ever seen or heard is people laughing, even when there seems to be so little reason for them to laugh.

There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.

No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning. D.

I'm not gonna lie, I love the holidays. But Christmas was a lot more fun when you weren't paying for it.

I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.

They didn't have to describe Jesus to me for me to know he's black. Jesus' first miracle was turning water into wine at a wedding. Now if that ain't black folk, I don't know what is.

With a cigar like in life, you got to have some length, and some girth.

Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

The one thing women love more than money is power.

I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.

(Her husband's departure ...) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.From "Butterfly on F street

It was hard to judge a man's full character by his bachelor party etiquette.

I've never heard of soft war.There's no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight them like any other war.

Monotony reveals our limitations.

Acting is just a job. I'm exactly the same as that lady bringing us coffee, and I have to remember that.

I have been to Heaven, I've been to Hell, I've been possessed by Lucifer. You can't really get much bigger than that.

But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.

Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.

God does not punish us for our sins but by them.