The competitions are as much a part of the tradition as the actual dances.

I’m a comedian who got into movies, so I don’t really think of myself as an actor.

I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.

I been seeing newspapers every Sunday morning, white dudes be in there in their drawers, never having no bulge in they drawers. Smiling at you. If I ain't have no bulge, I wouldn't be smiling!

Are you driving with your eyes open? Or are you, like, using "the force"?

In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!

I took my portrait that Kaufman did of me home from the Saturday Night Live TV set.