I love to talk about people I've met being an entertainer. All my encounters in life - I roll it all into an hour and 30 minutes.

Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It's a good thing. That's why I want to work.

You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don't say nothin' 'bout the money. 'Hi, how ya doin'? How's ya mama doing?' Man, how's my money doin'?

Just believe in yourself and work really hard. And when doors open, take advantage of every opportunity you can.

When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

I want to keep working, I want to keep doing my humanitarian stuff around the world, shining light on different places that have problems. Keep making movies, make people laugh.

I am Jewish. My real name is Chris Tuckenberg. A lot of people don't know about that.

One thing about me, when I make a decision about something, I realize when you make choices in life, that dictates your life.

It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.

My mom raised me to never have anything control me.

Find the pitch and pace and syllables and words you love to hear. Delight your own senses, and self-romance.

Peace of mind is a perception of a calm and quiet mind.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

If there would come a voice from God saying, 'I'm against vegetarianism!' I would say, 'Well, I am for it!' This is how strongly I feel in this regard.

When they give you things, ask yourself why. When you're grateful to them for giving you the things you should have anyway, ask yourself why.

If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap - not just to avoid the idea of dying, it's to fill some particular gap in ourselves.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

I've worked too hard all my life to have my kids control my life.