“The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.”

My father told me ‘Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.’

I’m happier in the way a guy gets happier when he starts to mature. It doesn’t make things easier, but I’m so much better at handling them.

Constantly take inventory of what’s important to you.

I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear – I’m not mad at anybody – not anymore.

The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It’s dismissive.

All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high.

The kid is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Money is the fuel for choices. Money gives me choices, so it’s not nothing, it’s something. But it’s not the end all, be all. There are other things in my life that I did not purchase with money that are very valuable.

Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.

People don’t know what it’s like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.

The world can’t tell you who you are. You’ve just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

I don’t want the money. I don’t want the drama. I just want to do my show. I want to have fun again.

I love the fact that I have a show where you can run over a kid and everyone busts out laughing.

I started when I was 14. I figured out that’s what I wanted to do when I was 14. Even when I was six, I can remember people telling me, “You’re gonna be a comedian,” and all this stuff.

I got married recently. So far, so good. Less sex than I expected, but other than that, it’s a pretty good lifestyle.

I support anyone’s right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?

You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.

Film-making is a physically hard job.

Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.

It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.

It’s hard for me to think of others because I’m not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.