When a bad experience happens, you just chalk it up to the great fact that you just got five more jokes in the show.

There's nothing better for a comedian than adversity.

Family time was very difficult when my girls were little, but I never missed a birthday, I was there for every major event.

Everybody has their favorite character.That's the only way I pick, whatever is going on in society, whatever I think folks will laugh at that's what I come up with.

Most people when they have autobiographies, they're not autobiographies, they're biographies written by a ghost writer.

I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it.

A comedian needs to have his own filters, needs to know his audience, how far he can push things.