Most fathers and... Mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

I don't wear no condom and I don't plan for no kids.

On many young actors that don't give their parents proper credit: I'm still waiting for some actor to win, say, an Oscar... and deliver the following acceptance speech: I would like to thank my parents, first of all, for letting me live.

Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'