"Every person has contributed to me as a human, but a lot of the characters I do are ones I created."
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"I'm not afraid to move away from funny. I'm not afraid of that."
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"I love "30 Rock" because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week."
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"I can make people laugh at the drop of a dime. God's given me that ability."
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"My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman."
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"My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me he was still a rock star."
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"I'm not a hateful person and don't condone any kind of violence against others."
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"Stand-up is my foundation. That's where it started at. And I love it because it's personal. It's mine. It's all me. It's my experience in life."
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"I don't like doing stand-up for little kids. It's not geared for that."
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"The actors are different, although I didn't set out to be different. My inspiration came from people like Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence and Will Smith. The genre is what it is. My inspiration was drawn from great movies like 48 Hours, Bad Boys and Rush Hour."
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"The truth is, I've never thought of myself as the Michael Jordan of comedy. And that's a good thing. You know why? Because I'm not. Wasn't that Richard Pryor? Yes, it was. I know what I am: I'm funny!"
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"When I was a young kid, my pops introduced me to it. He took me to Harlem, 145th and Edgecombe, to watch the filming of Claudine with James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll. That was my first taste of seeing a set and the cameras, and I was bit by the acting bug at a young age."
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"My father was the role model I looked up. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me he was still a rock star."
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"I had a great time working on 'Saturday Night Live.' It was one of the important times in my life."
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"Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes."
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"I spread love wherever I'm at. I'm like Marvin Gaye."
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"A stand-up's job is to hold the mirror up to society and to look at what we're afraid of. That's why we had shows like 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons.' We made fun of ourselves then."
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"Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing."
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"I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place."
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"I don't even deal with politics. I just don't believe in them. I think politics are politricks. My whole thing is power to the people. I don't put my faith in any one man. I keep my faith in God. That's where I keep my faith."
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