“Not all comedy clubs or situations are ideal, especially when you’re first coming up and I think that’s good for you. Eventually, you get to express your real personality.”

People love to see people fall.

Haters are all failures. It’s 100% across the board. No one who is truly brilliant at anything is a hater.

There’s a never-ending ocean of techniques out there.

That’s my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.

The key to happiness doesn’t lay in numbers in a bank account but in the way we make others feel and the way they make us feel.

So instead of investing your time in a passion, you’ve sold your life to work for an uncaring machine that doesn’t understand you. That’s the problem with our society. And what’s the reward? Go home and get a big TV.

Richard Pryor is, in my mind, the most honest comedian. He bared his soul to people. I think that’s why everybody loved him so much.

Once you understand what excellence is all about, you see how excellence manifest itself in any discipline.

If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.

Have you ever talked to someone, and you’re not even really talking to them? Actors are the worst for that.

People for the most part can smell lies.

I’ve been inspired by a shitload of people in my life so if there’s ever anybody that I can inspire, to me that’s a huge gift.

One of the most fascinating lessons I’ve absorbed about life is that the struggle is good.

Life is about the pursuit of excellence. That pursuit is probably more exciting to me now more than ever.

We have to start treating each other as if we are treating ourselves living another life.

I love a success story, but even more than a success story; I like a dude who fucks his life up and gets his life together again story.

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.