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; you don't go from M to Z.
I love my daughter, but there's a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?
I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.
I came from a place where there wasn't a lot of joy.
I've always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there's people used to get mad at me because I didn't hang out and things like that. I've never been that kind of person. Nothing has changed in that regard. I've never been posse, and all that. I'm a quiet storm.
I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.
I wasn't disciplined at all. As good of an athlete as I was, I was not disciplined. Had I had the drive that I have in comedy, and acting, and writing, that's why I knew it just wasn't right for me.
I don't ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.
My daughter was a beautiful child.
I took my sports experience to my life on stage. That's why I'm so disciplined. Playing sports, I was always underestimated. I was never picked first to do anything. This always helped me. It taught me how to push myself.
I was good at keeping my mother from crying.
I want to play a villain - I can't wait to play a villain.
I was a street performer for two years.
My girlfriend Rhonda, who's now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, 'You've got to do the right thing.'
You don't see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can't play the game. I can't - my tolerance - I know I'm getting old; I'll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I'm getting old? 'Cause my tolerance level is low.
I've introduced myself with comedy, and once you've introduced yourself as something, that's where people keep you. That's where people like to hold you.
Every time you see a black romance it's over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to cheat. She has to show him how independently strong she is, not just as a woman but as a black woman.
I think a lot of TV insults the audience.
You can't be a doctor if you don't know the entire parts of the body.
I've been in training for stardom.
I've never been no superficial cat.
The two sides of Bernie - that's a quiet weapon that I have.
My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that - a stern enforcer.
Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power.
I know doing movies is where I need to be. That's where my audience wants to see me.
