"It's very important to be in your child's life and know what's going on and be there with them."
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"People walked out on Richard Pryor and he's the funniest man alive."
"I touch on sex in my stand-up and it's funny, because when I talk about sex from an adult point of view, people cringe. But if I talk about war or killing, people laugh. So it's sick. It's really demented."
"I'm not really struggling about my career. The struggles are in my personal life. I can't really pinpoint how long it took me to get where I'm at, and I didn't care how long it was going to take, because it's not about the destination, it's about the journey."
"Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a person's whole life."
"Bones heal, but the loss of my friend will never heal."
"When I do stand-up... I get to do whatever I want to do. There's no boundaries. You'll get to know me. You'll leave with a piece of me."
"If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny."
"I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night."
"Let's focus on the funny. ... That's what I'm focused on... This is the gift God gave me. That's what I want to touch in people."
"Too many people focus on the thing, instead of the heavenly glory of it. I don't want to give away what to expect."
"I'm from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. So, you grow up around police officers. Some of them are in your family, some of them you have encounters with. I had a young police officer we were friends with in our group."
"Stand-up is really personal. It's not like somebody else is writing the script and you have to do what they write."
"I love being around people who love to do what I love to do, which is comedy."
"What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts."
"I give [Barack Obama] a 10 [on a scale of 1 to 10] because he's not God, and he inherited a couple of wars, and a financial mess.I want to see him curse somebody out on TV. You can't finesse a bull. He's gotta throw down. He's in the shark tank."
"I love Ice Cube and Charlie Day. They're brilliant men, great actors and very funny people."
"I would love to try action films."
"Because Eddie [Murphy] came from where I come from, the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. People in the projects used to call me Fat Murphy."
"What am I afraid of? The IRS. Thats it. I dont want those people knockin on my door, man."