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" My mom raised me to never have anything control me. "

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" I travel. I do a lot of traveling around the world. "

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" 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'? "

" 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. "

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

" I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie roles you wanna pick. I think if you've got an interesting life, you wanna do interesting movies about interesting things. "

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