You have to always keep conditioning. My coach used to say, "You play like you practice." If you practice s - -ty, you're going to play s - -ty.

The way we value black beauty has changed. I'm single now, but back in the slave days, I would have never been single. I'm 6 feet tall and I'm strong. Look at me, I'm a Mandingo.

You can't rush good wine. It has to sit. And when you finally drink it, it's the bomb. It's worth the wait.

People think I'm an overnight success. No. It's just that you all found me overnight.

I take care of everybody. I'm either hugging you or making sure that you're not sick, because my backpack has every kind of medicine in it.

When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.

I'm really good at standup. I always win at standup.

My job is to bring the tickle. I know what's funny.

I didn't realize the age thing until I got hired and everybody was telling me I was f - -ing old.

I'm not leaving America because it doesn't support me.

I had all the intentions of being the next Eddie Murphy.

I had reclusive tendencies for a reason, I couldn’t be trusted to live in the world and make decisions on my own.

I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.

It's my singing that allows me to stand apart.

Thinking that everything is going to come together in a perfect way is not necessarily the way it's going to happen.

When I was 17 I sent a picture up to an agency, and within a week I was in The Sun five days in a row.

Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women.

We're man enough to step in there and fight our hearts out and you have to be man enough to deal with a loss.

Supposedly I'm impossible to talk to. But it's honestly not me being difficult. Sometimes you just don't have a lot to say.

I was never hit as a child. I don't believing in hitting, period.

I consider it to be the meaning of my whole life and my obligation to serve my fatherland and our people.