I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.

You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don't say nothin' 'bout the money. 'Hi, how ya doin'? How's ya mama doing?' Man, how's my money doin'?

It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.

I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.

You don't know who you messing with man, I slap people for fun. That's what I do man! You wanna play rough, huh, I kill for fun!

A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different.

Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me.

Day-to-day life is a lot of work. I work a lot on stand-up stuff, and then day-to-day life and, you know, just living. It's always different. Try to work out, try to stay in shape, and try to have some fun.

Everybody goes through a lot of the same things, and I talk about those, and that's the key. You have to connect with your audience, and I might take them on a trip with me, tell them I went here and I went there and they'll go with me, you know, to hear the stories.

Georgia was a great place to live, but I wanted to get out because I knew the opportunities for what I was doing - stand-up comedy and eventually acting - were in Los Angeles.

I couldn't imagine not having clean water.

I do a lot of traveling around the world.

I feel like every time I go out, I want to do a good job. I want people to say that he's just as good at stand-up as he is in some of the movies I've seen him in, so I try to do the best every time I go out there.

I love traveling. It not only opens my mind up, but it also allows me to use my fame in another way through humanitarian works and stuff, and being an influence around the world.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.

I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I've done, I'm going to do a lot of great work in the future.

I think my life is a movie and your life reflects your work.

I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie roles you wanna pick. I think if you've got an interesting life, you wanna do interesting movies about interesting things.

I travel. I do a lot of traveling around the world.

I want to keep working, I want to keep doing my humanitarian stuff around the world, shining light on different places that have problems. Keep making movies, make people laugh.

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It's a good thing. That's why I want to work.

My mom raised me to never have anything control me.

This country is just that great that the opportunities are there for a Hispanic president, a black president or any other race for a president, yes.

When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

You know, we're missing so much as African-Americans and we should be concerned about what's going on in Africa.

American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.

I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.

I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance.

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

First you learn a new language, profanity; and second you learn not to discipline your dogs when you're mad, and that's most of the time when you're training dogs.

There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art.

For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.

No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.