I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

I don't see myself as extremely handsome. I just figure I can charm you into liking me.

You can put a cat in an oven, but that don't make it a biscuit.

I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.

I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!'

We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.

My sign is Leo. A Leo has to walk with pride. When he takes a step, he has to put his foot down. You walk into a room and you want people to know your presence, without you doing anything.

You give Frost a message from me. You tell him it's open season on all suckheads.

I don't like perpetuating the stereotype of black males being drug dealers, and criminals.

I have a whole other side that has yet to be seen on screen.

The first time I jumped from a plane, I screamed like a woman. I was two miles up and you could hear me clear as day. Now I love it.

How the story will end, no one knows? We can only envisage.

When a man is at his weakest is where he will find the greatest opportunity to become his strongest.

Every child should have time for arts, music, sports, drama, robotics, school newspapers and the like, not to mention recess and play.

I did feel funny about being fair and having red hair and freckles. I did not like that because I grew up in a neighbourhood where no one had red hair. I felt very conspicuous but not in a nice way.

Being a screenwriter in Hollywood is like being a eunuch at an orgy. Worse, actually, at least the eunuch is allowed to watch.

All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.

I'm always surprised when people say, "Oh, it got such mixed reviews." I guess I didn't read them.

I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.

Van Ritzen is one of the funniest humans I've ever met. Read her book, laugh, lather, rinse, repeat.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.