Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.

I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.

You can't change what happened. Just like you can't change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.

It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, 'Why am I so black?' And she said, 'Because I'm black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.'

Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.

When I started in the clubs, I had to work places where didn't nobody else want to work. I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.

I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world.