We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to do things the wrong way. Initiate a failure by doing something that’s very silly, unthinkable, naughty, dangerous. Watching why that fails can take you on a completely different path. It’s exciting, actually. To me, solving problems is a bit like a drug. You’re on it, and you can’t get off.
Queen Latifah used to help me out with my kids, because while we were all out on tour - Public Enemy, Naughty By Nature, Queen Latifah, Heavy D - when Public Enemy went onstage, I didn't have anybody solid to watch my kids. So, Latifah would help me out.
This must be part of Mother Nature's master plan—making these boys so irresistibly cute, in such a naughty way, that the purity of their intentions becomes irrelevant.
I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.
I've been keeping my own naughty and nice list for Washington.
You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore.
If they play dirty, then you play dirty.
I'm not one to air my dirty laundry for the whole world.
A 'naughty pickle' is how I'd best describe myself. I think fun and laughter is the whole point of life.
Don't write naughty words on the wall if you can't spell!
You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie. . . a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
In Washington, compromise has become a dirty word.
The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.
All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.
I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.