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When I’m on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that’s the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.

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Being famous is great, it’s not like bad or horrible or anything.
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Bad Fame Greatness Horrible
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.
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Choice End Life Money Myself Purchase Value
I’m famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can’t count on it.
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Change Count Day Future Myself People
The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It’s dismissive.
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Call Crazy Label Name
Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you’re interested in being funny, New York is the place to go.
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Comedy Interest Place World Yourself
I just like seeing people. I just like meeting people. I like finding out new walks of life and new ideas.
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Ideas Life Myself People Walk
There’s something about doing stand-up that’s cathartic.
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Feeling Stand
I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.
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Encouragement Funny Myself Responsibility Sketch Social
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.
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Comedy Myself People Remember Start
I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it.
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Black Man Myself Thinking
It seems like there’s never enough famous white people among comic in Hollywood.
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Enough Famous Hollywood Myself White
The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.
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Greatness Mark Yourself
I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.
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Leaving Level Myself Necessary Relationship Work
I got a lot of positive people around me.
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Myself People Positive
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.
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Angry Mad Myself Past Talk
If you don’t have the right people around you and you’re moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself.
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Lose People Right Yourself

When I’m on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that’s the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.

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