I want to play a villain - I can't wait to play a villain..

I want people to say at the end of my day, you know, like I used to say about Sidney Poitier and James Cagney and Joan Crawford and Red Skelton and t….

I hate to compare anything, especially while I'm promoting. I feel that's another disrespect, but 'Ocean's 13' is the best movie I've ever done in my….

I can act. I've been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don't nobody owe you nothing. You've go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; yo….

Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them..

You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke..

All you do as a performer is keep doing it. If you keep doing it, then it depends on why you're doing it. If you're doing something for superficial, ….

I was good at keeping my mother from crying..

My daughter was a beautiful child..

I think a lot of TV insults the audience..

They say if you don't have your health you ain't got nothing, but the truth is you ain't got nothing if you don't have no one to worry about your hea….

I've been in training for stardom..

Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me..

When I started in the clubs, I had to work places where didn't nobody else want to work. I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcy….

Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop..

That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail..

You can't be a doctor if you don't know the entire parts of the body..

Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors..

You know, every time it comes, every time that light comes on or every time that camera comes on, every time that microphone comes on, the Mac Man se….

I came from a place where there wasn't a lot of joy..

It's a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are..