“I knew what I had to do. I knew I had to keep working at it and keep putting material out there, even if no one was paying me for it.”

We’ll look for almost any reason not to change our attitudes; the inertia of the established order is powerful. If we can think of a plausible, or even implausible, reason to discount environmental warnings, we will.

If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.

I am very much a Red Sox fan; I can name you more players than you could possibly imagine. It’s just part of who I am.

If you’re just really loud, people just want – will give you what you want just to get you to shut up.

I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.

A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone’s scared to take a chance.

Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.

I am invisible in gay bars.

I like talking to a person who is crazy in a fun, eccentric way. I don’t want to talk to a legitimate crazy person, because that’s not nice.

The most outrageous thing happened years ago in my YouTube days, when I asked an older lady – it was like a sexually flavored question and she just slapped me full-on across the face. That’s the one time someone got physically aggressive with me. And it hurt.

It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.

I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.

What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.

We weren’t, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.

I have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.

I spend the majority of my time in New York and LA. I feel like a large part of my following and my fans are probably in New York and LA because of the work that I do is very New York-LA-centric. So people do recognize me. But it’s nothing overwhelming at all.

We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart.

The more time i spent with him, the more i knew the feelings weren’t going away.

I have always been confident in my skills and once the game got going I knew I was probably the best player on the floor most of the time whether it was junior high, high school or college. I knew I had control of the game.

Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains-whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains.

I’ve got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.

There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn’t know how many people would respect it.

I always knew that I was tremendously creative. I recited love poems, I wrote stories and I got excellent grades in every subject, except for maths.

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.