It's easier to get on show business, the hard part is to maintain. Nobody stays famous forever.

We treat racism in this country like it's a style that America went through. Like flared legs and lava lamps. Oh, that crazy thing we did. We were hanging black people. We treat it like a fad instead of a disease that eradicates millions of people. You've got to get it at a lab, and study it, and see its origins, and see what it's immune to and what breaks it down.

When you meet somebody for the first time, you're not meeting them. You're meeting their representative.

Though part of me had always wanted to be a comedian, another part of me had always wanted to be Bryant Gumbel or Dan Rather.

When I do stand-up, I'm basically doing a one-man show.

Pretty girls have problems too.

You cannot win in a fight against women, cause men have a need to make sense