"Most parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men."
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"I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school."
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"No, I want big ol' titties in my face!"
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"Unlike flying or astral projection, walking through walls is an earthbound pursuit."
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"There's a difference between racism and "I don't know any better. I'm clueless." Racism is like, "I'm trying to make you feel bad." That's racism."
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"Funny is only something that others know about you - you can't be funny by yourself."
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"And even if you get shot by a stray bullet, you don't gotta go to no doctor to get it taken out, whoever shot you will take they bullet back! "I believe you have my property!""
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"You just got to be really logical when you're a comedian - to a fault. Like a lawyer's got to believe in the law."
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"If you told me two years I would miss the greatest basketball game ever to hang out with Nathan Lane, I'd say, 'You're crazy!'"
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"I know what you're thinking: why is Chris Rock bagging groceries? But I dropped out of high school in the tenth grade, so if I couldn't tell jokes this is exactly what I'd be doing."
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"Emotional affairs, those are the only real affairs; those are the real ones."
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"It's weird with stand-up comedy. It doesn't really translate worldwide. I want to figure out how do I make it worldwide. Do a special in Africa. Can't beat that. Pull that off, then I will have done something."
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"I'm a nerd. I'm a little guy... the last guy you'd expect in a romantic movie."
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"I get approached to do shows all the time. There's a lot of money in sitcoms, but I've never been the kind of guy who wanted to do one. I don't think people want to see me saying "Honey, I'm home." It's just not my thing."
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"Success is just hanging out with my kids. I mean, I always say if you have options, you're rich. To me, success is the fact that hey, I just did a movie and maybe I'll do some stand up, maybe I'll will write a book or maybe I will do a play."
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"By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer."
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"Standup comedians are attracted to one another because of their faults. So we're all kind of messed up in the same way, and once I was around a group of people that saw the world in a different way, it's like this is where I need to be."
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"People are the same wherever you go. And if they weren't, they wouldn't laugh at the same s**t."
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"I want to really take chances. I want to be funny in a lot of different ways. I'd like to be great. I want to reach for greatness."
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"I live way below my means."
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