At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn't have something to say on a nightly basis.

I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.

I'm a sucker for a free tuxedo.

I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing or something.

It is better to look good than to feel good.

To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing.

We were in front of a live audience and I would be acting with the man who was playing my lover, and we used those words, and the audience would titter and laugh, and make me uncomfortable doing the scenes. ... I wanted to sort of stop and yell at them, "What's so funny? What's the matter with you people? Grow up!" It made me very self-conscious at times.