My audience is a diehard audience. They are dedicated. My audience always follows me and sticks with me. They're the reason I'm still here - in the films and in stand-ups.

I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean?

NO ONE is immune to the trials and tribulations of life.

Life- ride it until the wheels fall off.

You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say, 'Wow, they made a difference in some kind of way.'

I just try to get along with people and show the love that I would like to be shown to me.

Everybody has a Big Momma: the mother or the grandmother who tells it like it is, keeps it real with them, isn't afraid to tell you the truth about yourself.

For me, this was all or nothing. I left no room for anything else. That goal was just for my own push, my own self-esteem. The fear of not being a success in my life made me push even harder.

I don't really judge. To each his own. You like what you like.

You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.

I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.

No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear

Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.

The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism.

I work from the inside out.

When I think back kind of on starting my career, the last place I thought I would be would be spending a lot of time in Brooklyn.

Women should know that they don't have to hang on to an old dream that has stopped nurturing them - that there is always time to start a new dream.

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?

I think I should be on the main stage. I don't think I'm an undercard candidate. I think the others should drop out.

I don't see how anybody could have a passion for nature without having an equally developed tolerance for the cold.