I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.

What happened happened. What's gonna happen, is gonna happen.

A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.

In the beginning, I was always playing some kind of gangbanger and the token Mexican dude who didn't have a lot of lines but was in the entire movie. At the same time, everyone gets typecast, and I decided that if I was going to play a stereotypical role, I was going to play it like a three-dimensional character.

Eddie Murphy is just so off-the-cuff and can make anything funny. You hope that someday you'll acquire that skill, but maybe you're born with that.

My first ten years in Hollywood were really tough. I'd be coaching friends who came to me for acting advice, and then they'd make it before I did. I'd still be helping them while they were on movie sets and I had four lines on a TV show.

I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood.