I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like.
I never thought about doing men. Never.
I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.
But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
I just love doing sitcoms. I'd be in them till I was gray if they'd have me.
As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.
But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.
I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.
The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.
I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.
It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing
The fact that people look at pictures so tiny on Instagram - people ask me about it popping on Instagram, but I didn't alter myself to be that. I didn't change for the screens, I've just been doing me.
Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.
I don't advise kids to do what I do. I'm just doing me. I just smoke a little weed and do a little drink.
Go on, son, you're not doing me any good by bleeding.
If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.
But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were.
