I used to need the character but as I've gotten older I need it less and less - I prefer to play some version of myself. To approach any acting job as me just being me.

I don't chase after things, but I put forward the effort and know the rest of it is out of my hands.

I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.

The thing about narcissistic people is that they don't think they're being narcissistic.

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic, but don't give it more attention than it deserves.

I take my coffee like I take my women... strong... black... and proud.

Internet fame is like regular fame only without all the annoying 'money' and 'power.'

Super excited about things I'm going to do; never excited about things I'm actually doing.

You have to lead, in the case of a game show, a contestant through the architecture of the show. So there's a lot of rules there, literal and implied, that you have to navigate.

Whatever I write I publish. Because that's where the money is.

Shuffling really isn't something you should be doing on your deathbed.

Jordan Mullen is looking at me like I'm something he wants to scrape off his shoe and right then my heart breaks, but somehow beats on.

Only one thing that you can see and hear that is beautiful and frightening at the same time, and that is a thunder storm.

No human, no matter how ancient, or how popular, can be above the laws of Nature.

I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.

See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.

I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.

I'm saying that there's way more to 9/11 than mainstream media and our government have told us.

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

I say unto you that suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering