I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.

There's no wrong move on stage. You can do no wrong if you just trust your instincts.

Everything that happens to me in my life, be it good or bad, it's all education, and it's important for that to become part of what you do. It all feeds the beast.

I had the afro when I was in high school. I had the flattop during a short period in the early '90s. And I've had different variations of dreadlocks. I'll admit to those!

I like doing films and I wish that I could do more but I still have to audition. I don't get offered starring roles in movies even though I've written and starred in a movie.

Sometimes I'll go down a path, and I'll just pray that something's going to come to get me out of this path that I'm on.

Not everybody agrees on what's funny, obviously.

Learning lines is my biggest challenge.

At a certain point in my personal life, I went through a divorce and lost some people close to me.

Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.

I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.

I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.

Every 17 seconds a child dies on this planet from no clean drinking water. Good. Let's try to speed it up... there are too many people.

I expected higher prices for some books, but [there would be] flexibility for other books.

There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.

Many people have been able to get pitch meetings by just cold calling, especially the smaller networks and especially with the reality shows.

Among the things that you, and you alone, are the absolute and final judge of is whether or not you are a success.

I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.

Piss off Satan and don't take me for dumber than I look.