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" I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does. "

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" Ultimately, when I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff; that's what all this stuff is leading to. "

" As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older. "

" You know why they think I'm reclusive? I don't do the Hollywood stuff. I've never been on the circuit. "

" I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the show now. "

" I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing. "

" Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly. "

" The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice. "

" I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor. "

" I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything. "

" If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being. "

" The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish. "

" If you have a flop movie, so what? And if you have a hit movie, it's 'so what,' too - it's on to the next movie. "

" I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!' "

" I never hated hip-hop. It became the new rock and roll. It became the biggest thing that Africans have ever done in the history of the Americas. Hip-hop put more black Americans on than anything before it. It fed more people. It allowed them to diversify into clothing lines and billion-dollar headphone companies. "

" There's a bunch of places in the world I haven't been to, 'cause I can only be on a plane for a little bit. I'm like, 'How long is it to get there? Two days on a plane? What? No.' "

" I love the Beatles. "

" Music has always been around with me. "

" If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow. "

" You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there. "

" If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it. "

" I've been a big Bob Marley fan forever. Forever. Like big, huge. Bob Marley and the Beatles, that's my big, giant music influence. I can listen to them all the time. "

" I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax. "

" I stopped doing standup because it stopped being fun. And the reason it stopped being fun was it was harder to write - and this was before the Internet - it was harder to write new stuff. It had gotten so crazy. "

" I used to be the hippest of them all. I used to know everything about everything. I used to read about everything that was going on, and I knew everybody's name and anybody in pop culture. Anything that was written about me, I would read. "

" I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it. "

" The studios gotta start making more stuff where black folks get quality stuff. But I can't trip about that because I've been making movies for 35 years, and I've played everything from an old lady to a donkey, so I can't be on here talking about, 'They don't give us enough roles' and diversity. "

" I think I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it. "

" I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful. "

" I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row. "

" The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio. "