It was like a family reunion, watching the movie. It's always a good feeling when I can get a screening for my family.

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.

Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.

How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?

Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.

We are the prisoners of conformity. To get out of this prison, education is the only door and only opportunity.

The heart looks into space to be away from earth.

It is a fight and struggle to just be yourself.

It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.

My favorite jewelry, it's just what I'm feeling at the time.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become an actor by leaving yourself, and then you have to keep acting. How tragic!