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

I love women with attitude.

Whatever is on the page is what I’m married to. I’m very prepared. I’m a thespian. I don’t like to improv. I don’t like to go off course ’cause I think that’s where stuff happens. When you stick to the material ’cause it’s written so well, that’s where the magic happens.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‘Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.’ That’s my message.

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

I got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro – pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you’re going in your career by the company you keep.

I’ve been known to preach.

Soul Plane’ put me in a position to succeed. I’m glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.

The same thing I did in 2013 is what I’m trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people.

At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.

I’ve known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was ‘Along Came Polly.’

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

I’m good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O’Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

It’s very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We’ve all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we’ve all got problems.

The spirit of advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything

Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills!

The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything’s fixed not in your favour.

Trust yourself and in the universe that everything will work out in the end.

Perfect love will never want the preeminence in everything, it will never want to take the place of another, it will always be willing to take the back seat.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.