"I pride myself on being the guy who can do Def Comedy Jam and Charlie Rose. And do well on both."
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"I just love New York. New York has energy, it has culture, New York is very diverse. There's not a better place in the world."
"I think all the funny people were bullied. When they talk about outlawing bullying, it's like, what? You want no Comedy Central?"
"There's no interference in stand-up. It's all the things it's hard to get in film: I get to have a wife, I get to have kids. I get to be sexual. I get to grow. I get to be a man."
"Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life."
"All people naturally hate. My kid bites people now. I didn't teach my kid to bite anybody. Kids say mean stuff. Only through love do we get this evil out of them. Only through love and structure and discipline do they not hate. The kids that hate didn't learn anything, that's the problem."
"Two hours of sparkling entertainment spread out over a four-hour show."
"When people try to read between the lines - critics, they have a job. Their job is to make something bigger than it is."
"The Democrats should have an empty chair on stage for the entire DNC, and when anyone asks who it belongs to, they can say Osama bin Laden."
"I'll go with the guy with one house. The guy with one house is scared about losing his house."
"I see as white people finding loopholes in the slavery laws."
"Oprah is rich, Bill Gates is wealthy. If Bill Gates woke up tomorrow with Oprah's money, he'd jump out a fuckin' window and slit his throat on the way down saying, "I can't even put gas in my plane!""
"I believe you got my property?"
"No matter what kind of backgrounds two men are from, if you go, 'Hey, man, women are crazy,' you've got a friend."