I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.

I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.

I don't mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It's getting stabbed in the back that I can't handle.

Comeback is a good word, man.

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone . . .

People are always afraid of the truth.

Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.

A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise.

I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.

All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.

It was a kingdom of dreams — a place where things would be just the way I wanted them to be.

My faith has strengthen. God has shown me through my son with Down syndrome to not take anything for granted. I'm more grateful.

I am an indifferent cook but I can make pie.

Yet again, Matt pulled another rabbit out of his hat and got a fire for us.

Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.

I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.

There's nothing more exciting than playing live for the people. Just play it, just do it.

Whether you're on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can't trust one another there's going to be trouble.

Writing plays for me is often an act of looking at basement-level fears in terms of where they come from.

I think data is incredibly powerful for understanding what people are thinking and for allocating resources.