“I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.”

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 to make sure that everything that I’m creating, I’m creating it so other people get enjoyment out of it. And that’s the reward that you get for that.

The people I know that have the hardest time keeping it together emotionally are people that don’t workout.

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

Life is strange. You keep moving and keep moving. Before you know it, you look back and think, ‘What was that?

Having the privilege of sitting down and having 3 hour long uninterrupted conversations with hundreds of brilliant people is an awesome perspective enhancer. Quotes

The industry has changed. Two years ago I could tell a company I’ve got Russell Crowe and that would get the film made. Now they’d ask ‘And who’s the girl?’ Just one famous face isn’t enough any more.

I remember as a little boy I ate one meal a day and sometimes slept in the street. I will never forget that and it inspires me to fight hard, stay strong and remember all the people of my country, trying to achieve better for themselves.

It’s hard to say I don’t like being famous, but how I feel is that I don’t see myself as that person. It baffles me that people would want a picture with me.

It’s nice to have famous people love you.

It seems like there’s never enough famous white people among comic in Hollywood.

The idea of putting out an album is quite exciting because it’s sharing your creativity with people. There’s no ambition to be famous. I couldn’t care less about that.

I’m not trying to stay away from being a celebrity, I’m not saying, ‘I’m sooo not famous,’ I’m trying to continue being a musician in a time when everyone is very celebrity-led.

Exposure and attention make a work famous – the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.