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" 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. "

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" I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job. "

" Being on 'SNL' gives you a unique experience that almost no one else has. It's like Harvard for the comic actor. "

" I had a band before I did standup - I've always done music. I got known for being funny, and that's how I make a living - and from acting - but I never stopped playing and producing and recording music. "

" 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. "

" I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing - how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks. "

" From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic. "

" I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in. "

" 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. "

" I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty. "

" The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood. "

" I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist. "

" Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles. "

" 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 this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didn't want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but that's part of it. "

" 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. "

" My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson. "

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