You've got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management. You'll manage your time to achieve your goals because you clearly know what you're trying to achieve in your life.

Everyone who goes to a job he doesn't like is a lot weirder than I am.

What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.

I'm a clown, which could be a public health role. I'm really interested in moving our society away from a society needing Xanax and Prozac, and that is really feeling depressed, to one that is celebrating, and so I find just walking around in colorful clothes, people smile.

It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.

When you talk about a character on a situation comedy, it's not just the actor. It's the writers, too.

Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities.

I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you think that perhaps could become your sound, too. I did that with Hemingway, and I thought I was writing just like Hemingway. Then all of a sudden it occurred to me - he didn't have a sense of humor. I don't know anything he's written that's funny.