I'm an authentic person: I can talk about diabetes and how it affects you because I'm actually diabetic, and I know how much help a person needs, whether it's support physically or just understanding and being conscious of what diabetes really is.

If somebody asks you the same questions 25 times, maybe 2,500 times, do you still want to talk about the same thing?

How can another man call another man boss? That's like calling another man 'Daddy.'

I got cribs all over the place and offices all over the place, and sometimes I lose track of my stuff.

As chefs, a lot of the times we lose sight of the fact that we are in the food business and that it needs to make money to survive.

It took a long time to get out of my contract. The producers thought I was negotiating for more money.

I think that when I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that. I kind of backed my way into comedic parts. When you're young, you kind of take yourself seriously, and you think, like, 'People need to see what I can do.' And it's so laughable, especially with actors.

I came from nothing. We didn't have money, so I started work at 14 because I really needed the money.