I like to get things going. I get so many different ideas, whether it's film, TV, whatever.

There always seemed to be a place for God and, to me, it seemed like God was a place in the unknown side of the ledger.

I started as a standup comic and an actor.

I love writing family stories.

I don’t want to slam somebody else’s religion. I mean as a Catholic, we’re basically cannibals: We eat Jesus every Sunday, you know? So who am I to say your religion is creepy?

When I was born there were still different drinking fountains you had to drink out of.

Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility.