“I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.”

Take me seriously. Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.

I don’t know about other people, but I love to work.

My drive is other people’s success.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself.

My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with ‘topics’ – race, white versus black – you’re not separating from the pack. You’re doing what everybody else is doing.

The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.

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

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset.

I never treat it like a job or feel that way. It’s the best thing ever to me, and I feel like a kid in a candy store.

My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

An unemployed court jester is nobody’s fool.

I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.

I have no regrets in my life even the crazy things I’ve been in. It all made me the I am today and I wouldn’t change anything. I’m happy with who I am!

There is time for everything and time to choose For everything.We are that time, that choice.

In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.

You’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.

They’re not into dicing and slicing everything up.

I think everything depends on money.