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.

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

You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park

Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory.

I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.

I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much.

As much as we teach our kids, the process teaches us. If we're being diligent, we're learning from our strengths as parents, but also from the mistakes that we make.

Of course, you always give 100 percent, but at a home race you're always more motivated, simply because you feel at home.

Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

The hues of bliss more brightly glow, Chastis'd by sabler tints of woe.

We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, Missouri.

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.