You can't be a doctor if you don't know the entire parts of the body.

I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.

I can act. I've been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don't nobody owe you nothing. You've go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; you don't go from M to Z.

The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.

Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power.

I'm not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.

You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.