I just remember that whenever I got really mad or passionate, like in an argument, people would laugh, and I'd be dead serious. It would happen a lot. So it was like, Gee, I've got something here.

Bill Cosby was the first comedian I was exposed to, because he doesn't curse.

When you're making a real documentary, you shoot it and the movie happens. You don't make - this sounds corny - you don't make a documentary, a documentary makes you. It really does.

Men are handicapped when it comes to arguing, 'cause we have a need to make sense.

A comedian has to live in his head. All this comedy comes from a lonely place. When you're surrounded by an entourage, you're not living in your head.

No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.'

Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.