I'm the most successful person in my generation of family members, and that sucks.

I was trying to be the best rapper in the world. I wasn't thinking about acting.

We don't do movies for the industry. We do movies for the fans, for the people. If the industry give you a trophy or not, or pat you on the back or not, it's nice, but it's not something you should dwell on.

Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world. And that just gave me a chance to see how life could be. And it gave me a chance to interact with everybody, not just black people or Mexicans. It made me just a little more worldly.

My movies work because not many people in Hollywood are like me.

I don't do much cooking, but one of my favorite dishes to eat is my wife's macaroni and cheese.

When you're spending your money for a nice outing, you want to go have a good time. And I always thought comedies, laughing, was something that was made for entertainment on that level. And records and maybe TV and stuff like that is really made to be heavy.