I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

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.

We split up over religious differences - she worshiped money . . . and I didn't have any.

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

There are six mental faculties that we have, and how we use them sets the course for our life.

I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.

Clean plates don't lie.

I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.

Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music.

I've always had trouble with authority.

I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.

Truth should so humble that even dust could crush it.