You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don't say nothin' 'bout the money. 'Hi, how ya doin'? How's ya mama doing?' Man, how's my money doin'?

Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It's a good thing. That's why I want to work.

Just believe in yourself and work really hard. And when doors open, take advantage of every opportunity you can.

When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

I want to keep working, I want to keep doing my humanitarian stuff around the world, shining light on different places that have problems. Keep making movies, make people laugh.

I am Jewish. My real name is Chris Tuckenberg. A lot of people don't know about that.

One thing about me, when I make a decision about something, I realize when you make choices in life, that dictates your life.

It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.

My mom raised me to never have anything control me.

I am now half Asian. I have learned all the ancient teachings of Buddi.

The future is just wasted on some people.

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.

But I intend to make you respectable.

Tonight is not the end of the world. This is our hot tip of the evening.

'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?

In accepting death as inevitable, we don't label it as a good thing or a bad thing. As one of my teachers once said to me, “Death happens. It is just death, and how we meet it is up to us.

Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.

Philosophy is an odd thing... There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.

Female, I give you fair warning: you are playing with fire" - Tegan to Elise (Midnight Awakening