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When You're Coming Up With New Material, It's Not Always Gonna Be Good. The Only Way To Learn Is For It Not To Get A Laugh, So You Can Adjust It And Come Back The Next Day To See If It's Working Right. Next Time, You Might Get A Different Laugh. You're Constantly Rebuilding.

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When You're Coming Up With New Material, It's Not Always Gonna Be Good. The Only Way To Learn Is For It Not To Get A Laugh, So You Can Adjust It And Come Back The Next Day To See If It's Working Right. Next Time, You Might Get A Different Laugh. You're Constantly Rebuilding.

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The End Of The Day

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I Don't Have To Change Anything. I Think That's The Secret To Comedy. You Want To Be Universal And Appeal To Everyone.

At The End Of The Day, I Want To Be Part Of The Same Conversation As Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby And Richard Pryor.

The End Of The Day

I Would Spend Absolutely Every Last Minute With My Kids, Telling Them How Much I Love Them And How Much I Would Do For Them.

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My Lady Makes Me Do It. I Sang Whitney Houston's "bodyguard".

I Feel Like Whatever You've Done In Your Career, Good Or Bad, It's Nothing But Preparation For The Big Events To Come.

I Can Honestly Say, After Talking About My Mom Passing Away, I Got The Biggest Weight Off Of My Chest. Comedy Is My Therapy. That's How I Deal With My Problems, My Personal Battles. I Talk About It. I Give It To My Fans. When They Laugh At It, It's A Release, For Lack Of A Better Word.

I Just Don't Believe People Can Tame Animals.

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Everybody That's Successful Lays A Blueprint Out.

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Some Sarcasm Is Best Told Simply.

I'm A Whopping 5 Foot 4 Inches Tall. I'm Not Going To Get Any Taller.

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I'm Trying To Do What Eddie Murphy Did For His Generation. You Have To Show People, 'i'm Different. I'm Not Just A Comedian.' I'm Trying To Become A Rock Star.

You've Got To Put Yourself In Positions To Take Away What Can Be Said.

Everything Is An Open Book. I Don't Speak On Other People's Hardship, But If It Happened In My Life Or Something That Has Been An Experience On My Particular Journey, I'm Going To Talk About It. That's What My Fan Base Appreciates The Most. I'm Universal. You Can Relate To The Things I Say Or That I Go Through.

Just Because Your Environment Or Living Space Changes Doesn't Mean That Your Attitude Necessarily Has To Change.

All I Can Do Is Try To Create My Own Brand And Have People Appreciate Me For That.

Everybody Wants To Be Famous, But Nobody Wants To Put The Work In!!

Hardwork And Determination

I Feel Like I Have A Job To Do, Like I Constantly Have To Reinvent Myself. The More I Up The Ante For Myself, The Better It Is In The Long Run. I Try To Interact With My Fans As Much As Possible. It's Good That The Person I'm Being Onstage Isn't Really An Act. It's Really Me.

In Marriage For Example, You Say 'yes' On The Day You Get Married, 'i Do', But Each Day You Implicitly If Not Explicitly, Also Say 'yes', By Every Act That One Performs In A Marriage, One Is Saying 'yes', Making A Cup Of Coffee For One's Wife Or Husband Is A Form Of Saying 'yes' To The Marriage Vow That One Is Continuing The Marriage By Affirming It In One's Deeds. And Exactly The Same In The Religious Life.

Going Through My Divorce Has Changed Who I Am In My Understanding Of What's Good And Bad In Relationships.

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Sometimes When You Hear So Much And Everybody Is Praising You, You Can Get Lost In That. You Can Start Thinking That You Are On A Higher Pedestal Than Everyone Else. So I Try To Stay Level Headed, Humble And The Best Way To Do That Is To Not Really Acknowledge It That Much. I Just Keep Grinding And Working As Hard As I Can. I Also Set My Goals Higher So That I Don't Have Time To Be Content With My Place In Life And In My Career.

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A Reputation As A Hard Worker Is A Good Reputation To Have.

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Dialogue Means Debates And Everyone's Point Of View.

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I Don't Use Twitter For Bad.

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Some People Love So Hard That They Can't Control Those Emotions When They're At Their Deepest Point.

I Think Sometimes Celebrities Get So Big, They're Not Reachable.

I'm Not Going To Stop Having Problems.

I Don't Think You Get Successful To Brag And Throw What You Have In The World's Face. That's All Private.

I Took My Daughter To The Father-daughter Dance And I Cried Like A Little Baby. She's 11 Years Old, So Seeing Her Get Dressed Up And Pretty Made Me Cry.

If You Look At Me Close Enough, There's A Small Resemblance To A Chicken Nugget. I Don't Know If It's My Skin Texture Or My Hair, But The Resemblance Is Definitely There.

Hard Work And Determination Equals Success. Nothing Comes Easy. Put Your Mind To Something.

The Only Time You Should Look Back In Life, Is To See How Far You Have Come.

My Kids Are The Funniest Two Human Beings There Are.

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