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" I come from where Mike Tyson came from. I come from right across the street from Jay-Z. I didn't have a pond in my backyard. I saw violence. "

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" I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night. "

" I believe gay, straight, anybody, everybody's supposed to be happy in this world, man. "

" It gets scary when you're dealing with people who don't know how to separate fact from fiction. "

" I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place. "

" So I think all comedians are earning their wings into heaven. We're all going to heaven, but everybody's not going to get their wings. Some people are just going to be regular angels. Doing cleanup, janitor work. In heaven, I'm going to sit on the couch with Oprah. "

" If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people. "

" My heart is committed to giving everyone the same rights that I deserve for myself. "

" I do comedy for real people. "

" When you see me on the street, act like you know me. "

" When you look at the artists who have come up through 'Billboard' over the years, it's incredible. "

" The truth is, I've never thought of myself as the Michael Jordan of comedy. And that's a good thing. You know why? Because I'm not. Wasn't that Richard Pryor? Yes, it was. I know what I am: I'm funny! "

" You will be surprised but I do a lot of studying and I watch National Geographic. "

" The version of me you see on TV now and in my feature films is a pretty happy guy, isn't he? "

" When you're in the spotlight, people want to dissect you and then put you back together the way they want you. "

" I was never a big comic book fan. I was always more into the baseball cards. "

" Black people dance well because we start early - there's music being played everywhere. White people? They don't start dancing until they get to college, and by then, it's too late; the bottom don't move with the top no matter how hard they try. "

" My older brother was born, who was a cripple, then I was born, and my sister was born, the only girl. So I was between the only girl and the crippled guy. I was the middle guy. "

" I remember when I was on 'Saturday Night Live' my first year, and I wasn't getting much. I was down; I was ready to quit. "

" I love working with Alec Baldwin. He's one of the five greatest actors ever to live. "

" My fans would love to see Brian Fellow come back. I love my fans. And they like my edge. "

" My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me, he was still a rock star. "

" What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts. "

" Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes. "

" For my first gig, I got $75. I could make money being funny, so I pursued it as a career and have turned it into a lucrative business. "

" I have a pretty diverse audience, and that makes me happy - laughter is universal, and I don't differentiate between people at all. Why should I? People are people. There's no reason why one person can't relate to any other person on this planet in some way or another. "

" I don't get on the phone and prank people and things like that on the phone with people, no. "

" I've got friends who want money but don't want to do anything to earn it. "

" I don't see myself as angry, although other people see that. I just see myself as a short, dumpy guy with bad feet, and I'm passionate. "

" Working with Bruce Willis makes my career authentic. I may not get an Oscar, but I worked with Bruce Willis. That matters more to me. "