I want to play a villain - I can't wait to play a villain.

I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It's still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.

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

Fear is not one of my attributes.

I want people to say at the end of my day, you know, like I used to say about Sidney Poitier and James Cagney and Joan Crawford and Red Skelton and those guys and Bill Cosby. They did quality and substance. You always remember them.

I'm not a politician, I'm a comedian. I know my limitations.

I'm so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.