“Great leaders do not see people for who they are, but who than can become. Further, the great leader compels those that follow them to become that man or woman of the future, likely exceeding the expectations of both.”
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“People follow those who act like leaders, not those who proclaim themselves to be leaders.”
“Yes, anyone can log onto your "anonymous" band's MySpace page and hear the music. So, in theory you have gotten your music in front of 5 billion people. The other thing is that something has to cause them to go to those bands MySpace page, and it's that reliance on taste makers or radio, that is still very much a part of how music is sold and marketed.”
“I can say with great confidence that I was much more critical of the people I knew than of the people I didn't. Just because I know what they're capable of, so the bar is set so much higher for them - unfairly, frankly.”
“No one else in my family is an actor or aspires to be, and most of my friends aren't actors. Most of my friends are the people that I grew up with back in Georgia. It's really helpful to be surrounded by a world that's bigger than the entertainment industry.”
“I think when you're as talented as me or you, you don't need to have an ego. On a serious note, the people I most admire in the world in my field have never shown that much ego to me.”
“Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.”
“You know, you get famous and you work in these weird jobs and you don't have a lot in common with people. But once you have kids, you have everything in common with everybody.”
“Why do people do yoga? To clear their minds? I embrace the clutter in my head.”
“You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing.”
“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.”
“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.”
“People are the same wherever you go. And if they weren't, they wouldn't laugh at the same s**t.”
“I'll probably pay more attention to the musicians in the pit than the stars because they're the closest you're going to get to normal people in the audience.”
“You're not famous unless people's mothers know who you are. Everybody else, you think you're famous, but you're just hot, and heat cools off.”
“People basically aren't that racist. They want their laughs. If I make a white guy laugh, he's gonna come see me. He's not gonna go see the white guy who doesn't make him laugh just because that guy is white.”
“There's not one reference in that thing that doesn't play. People deal with emotions in music all the time, but comedians are always talking about what they see. But we seldom talk about what we feel.”
“Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous.”
“I'm pretty good at getting over people throwing stuff at me. If you've been doing stand up long enough you know how to swing back and get the laughs.”
“I love seeing black people do normal things, being judged as normal people.”