A new broom can sweep the floor, but an old broom knows where the dirt is.

I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.

My comedy is a nuclear bomb inside my mind. It's a weapon that's never been tested. It just blows up and flattens everybody.

Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43.

Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny.

Whatever that thing is that white people like in blacks, I don't have it. Maybe it's my arrogance or my self-assurance or the way I carry myself, but whatever it is, I don't have it.

No wonder circus animals do what they do: They tortured them. And you know the only ones they can't control? It's the chimpanzees. You can't control them. That's why you never see a gorilla in a movie, because the gorilla may decide there'll be no filming.