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" My upbringing was solid because of the people I had around me. "

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" I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading. "

" My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine. "

" The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate. "

The Most Important

" I'm trying to do what Eddie Murphy did for his generation. You have to show people, 'I'm different. I'm not just a comedian.' I'm trying to become a rock star. "

" Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success. "

" I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing. "

" My show 'The Big House' was picked up; they flew me to New York. I'm about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart's 'The Big House.' And a hand grabs my shoulder, 'Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.' It's a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can't. "

" HartBeat Productions is a company established by me; it's mine. I run it. I have employees. "

" The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice. "

" You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. 'Hey, y'all, I'm cool with everybody.' That's my message. "

" No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you're staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It's very simple when you look at it. "

" I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault - they watched the foot come towards their face. "

" A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have. "

Good Reputation

" All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that. "

" I get that racism exists, but it's not a catalyst for my content. I don't need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with 'topics' - race, white versus black - you're not separating from the pack. You're doing what everybody else is doing. "

" Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn't just a director. He's potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have. "

" I ain't never called nobody no redskin. I've never been mad, like, 'Get out of this restaurant, you redskin.' "

" If you look at me close enough, there's a small resemblance to a chicken nugget. I don't know if it's my skin texture or my hair, but the resemblance is definitely there. "

" I'm happy about working; I'm happy about gracing the stage and coming out and making people laugh. I never treat it like a job or feel that way. It's the best thing ever to me, and I feel like a kid in a candy store. "

" The funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn't aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn't know they existed. I was sheltered. "

" I'm never gonna step away from stand-up. I can't. That's what got me where I am, and that's also my muse. That's how I stay level-headed. That's what keeps me going. "

" At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you're going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously. "

" My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about - having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character. "

" I got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro - pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you're going in your career by the company you keep. "

" I'm not a big politics guy. "

" I was the guy on the swim team entertaining the bus on the way to the meets. "

" Almost anything can be funny if said the right way - but it has to be said the right way. "

" My mum passing away wasn't funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation. "

" You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it's not about the money. "