I don't want pictures, I want to find things out.
I think you've got to have a depth, a deeper depth to take stand-up into acting, but I think it really helps you as a stand-up to home into different characters and stuff easily.
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'?
Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.
Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.
Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his family, but let him be taught at the same time that he must forsake and even forget them when the welfare of his country requires it.
Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.