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

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 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.

I am now half Asian. I have learned all the ancient teachings of Buddi.

It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism.

Without renewal of mind, there is no transformation.

What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

Yes, I wanted to win! I wanted the belt! I'm a belt mark! I want to sleep with it! I want to wear that and nothing else to church on Sunday!

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.

As an exercise of the reasoning faculties, pure mathematics is an admirable exercise, because it consists of reasoning alone and does not encumber the student with any exercise of judgment.

This issue is not economic but political. I hope that all market participants interested in maintaining stable and reasonable world energy prices will finally make the right decision.