I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It’s a shame.
A black President? Now come on y'all, we got Clinton, that's close. He got negro tendencies.
I've been smokin' ever since I was two.
I've got a big closet of scripts, and a big stack of scripts on the side of my desk, because you get a whole bunch. Nothing's going to be perfect, and I realize that; but I am a perfectionist, so you go through a lot of stuff.
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.
When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.
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'?
Sometimes playing TV can be really nerve-wracking, and I think I tend to handle that by trying to look at my band-mates as frequently as possible and ignore everything else.
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
Though introverts are drained by interaction, we can take immense pleasure in watching the scene around us.
I feel crushingly embarrassed when I do bad work, so being rejected after doing bad work is actually harder than being rejected after doing good work.