My father could have been a great comedian, but he didn't believe that that was possible for him, and so he made a conservative choice. Instead, he got a safe job as an accountant. When I was 12 years old, he was let go from that safe job, and our family had to do whatever we could to survive. I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

When I started to realise how important the film was to people I thought there is a lot of negative stuff going on in the world, maybe they need these two people

I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me.

You are the vanguard of knowledge and consciousness; a new wave in a vast ocean of possibilities.

My psychiatrist says I have a messiah complex. But I forgave him.