You can't take everything that is offered to you. I pass on a lot of stuff, because I truly believe that I will shine better if I could do it 200 percent rather than do it 80 percent and make it so-so.

Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.

I just always found it easier to be the same guy onstage as you are offstage.

My wife is a vegetarian. When my wife is with me, I eat vegetarian. When she's not, I eat meat. I'm just being honest.

You can wait for things to happen for you or you can make things happen for you.

It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.

I don't consider myself a stand-up comedian. I consider myself a performer; a comic as opposed to stand-up comedian. Stand-up comedians stand there and do their bits; I break every rule in creation. If there's a rule that can be broken in stand-up, I'll do it.