“Almost anything can be funny if said the right way – but it has to be said the right way.”

I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, ‘We’re black.

If you look at me close enough, there’s a small resemblance to a chicken nugget. I don’t know if it’s my skin texture or my hair, but the resemblance is definitely there.

These people are great because they just say, ‘I’ma do that,’ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work.

I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.’

The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.

Being humble matters.

On ‘Think Like a Man,’ they got the best out of me because they allowed me to bring my own cadences and opinions to the character that I was playing. I think we got the best of that particular character.

I don’t write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

I never looked back there, but she was like, ‘Will you all just shut up!’ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‘What are you doing?!’ I was like, ‘You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.’

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

When i’m wasted, i can almost forget who i am,” he said, his smile fading slightly. “i know i’m still there, but only barely. It’s a good place to be.” he tipped back the thermos, eyes on the dark sea straight ahead

I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.

In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.

Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.

Marley is someone before his time, man. He’s – he’s almost – he’s like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean?

He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.