You say you're a comedian, you always have to be on guard.

I provide a little comic relief.

You take the quote from Sam Jackson about how he'll never work with a rapper, and I can understand where he's coming from because he says rappers can't act.

Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.

Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot a helicopter out of the sky. That's the only fight I'm in.

Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.

Set your heights more than what you see around you, see beyond.

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it.

It takes all sorts to make a world - saints as well as soldiers.

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.

Stand up for Truth even it means standing alone.

A large salary does not make a person rich, it is a diligent hand that does.

You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters?

Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty.

Believe in God like the sun up in the sky, see science can tell us how but it can't tell us why. I seen a baby cry then seconds later she laughed, the beauty of life the pain never lasts.

If I want to die, what am I saving myself for?

It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.

Be content and happy with whatever comes to you.

A man is as old as his arteries.