You see people waving. You dont see people having problems, with each other at least.

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.

(U)derneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it is still with us.

To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.

I don't want to be famous. I like to be able to sit in a cafe and watch the world go by and observe people.

There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.

If you want to demoralize somebody's spirit, you take away their hope.

The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.

Schools teach the need to be taught.

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

When a relationship dies do we ever really give up the ghost or are we forever haunted by the spirits of relationships past?

Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a powerful motivator.