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" 'Nutty Professor' was me going, 'Say what you want to say, but I can do this, and you can't, and nobody else in the town can do this.' "

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" However wack anyone thought 'Whatzupwitu' was, there's not a lot of people that have footage of themselves dancing around in the clouds with Michael Jackson. I do have that forever. "

" 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!' "

" You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Every now and then, when I think about it, I think, 'What would I even talk about onstage?' It's never been, 'I wonder if I'm funny. I wonder if I can come up with jokes.' It's more, 'What would it be like without the leather suit and the anger?' "

" I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player! "

" 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. "

" After all these years, I've done well and I'm cool. I feel comfortable in my skin, I've saved some paper, everybody's healthy, my kids are beautiful and smart, doing different things, it's all good. "

" 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. "

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

" I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day. "

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

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