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"I never watched the Oscars. Come on, it's a fashion show . . . What straight black man sits there and watches the Oscars? Show me one. And they don't recognize comedy, and you don't see a lot of black people nominated, so why should I watch it?"
"Stand-up is the only career like that where once you get really big at it, people kind of encourage you not to do it."
"We got no wealthy black people. We got rich people. Shaq is rich. The guy who signs his checks is wealthy."
"The only reaction that frightens me is people not laughing. It's extraordinary to me when you get a laugh. That you can go in front of a bunch of people you never met before, you can say some stuff and they all laugh in unison - that's amazing. It's a miracle."
"The stupider the regime the more intelligent the people get and the more humorous."
"The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose."
"I enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a desk job."
"What surprises me is when people give me their mobile number. The other day, someone on a bus asked if I swear. I said I try not to, but of course I'm just a normal person."
"I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I'm acting, I feel great. It's not to be famous."
"[Satan] has been thoroughly defeated and only holds people by usurped authority and power."
"Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly."
"People have lost their sense of humor. In former times, we constantly made jokes about different races."
"I had three points I wanted to make. That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it."
"Most people who'll remember me, if at all, will remember me as an action guy, which is okay. There's nothing wrong with that. But there will be a certain group which will remember me for the other films, the ones where I took a few chances. At least, I like to think so."
"I never considered myself a cowboy, because I wasn`t. But I guess when I got into cowboy gear I looked enough like one to convince people that I was."
"The repeat run of Fawlty Towers (BBC2) drew bigger audiences than ever and deservedly so. Statistical surveys reveal that only the television critic of the Spectator is incapable of seeing the joke, which is that Basil Fawlty has the wrong temperament to be a hotel proprietor, just as some other people have the wrong temperament to be television critics."
"The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas."
"I am convinced that anyone can be a great writer . . . if he can only . . . tell the naked truth about himself and other people. That, a little technique with words and the willingness to bare heart, soul and body are really all it takes."
"The hat is not for the street: it will never be democratized. But there are certain houses that one cannot enter without a hat. And one must always wear a hat when lunching with people whom one does not know well. One appears to one's best advantage."
"I actually think the common anarchist position is that people are fundamentally good, blah blah blah. I don't believe that."
