My comedy comes from pain. I can't stand to see someone hurting.

Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? 'Cause he had problems.

I was in love with a lot of people, because I was a student of the game of comedy - Carol Burnett, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Don Rickles, Red Foxx, Moms Mabley - who gets no credit, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, George Kirby. I loved them all, and I used to just take a page out of all of them.

My daughter was a beautiful child.

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.

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.

Comedy has been so good to me.