I am who I am today because of my mother.

It's a well-known fact that tall people are evil.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you're staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It's very simple when you look at it.

I get that racism exists, but it's not a catalyst for my content. I don't need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with 'topics' - race, white versus black - you're not separating from the pack. You're doing what everybody else is doing.

Being humble matters.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault - they watched the foot come towards their face.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that's one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you're going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it'll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.

There are two things that create opportunities. One is being involved with something that makes money, and the other is winning awards. And the reason that winning the awards creates the opportunities is because it gives the people who are selling the picture the opportunity to make more money.

I'm very comfortable being married to an extremely strong, opinionated, and driven woman. But I also sit at the head of the table. I have both of those sides to me.

I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through.

There is a lesson there about greed and it is a lesson I am willing to learn as well. Has it made me a distrustful person? I don't think so. But we probably look a bit more carefully at our financial situation now.

When it happened to us and it was all gone overnight, we said, 'We are in this together, we are healthy, our children are healthy and we can work'.

There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.

L.A. kind of scares me.

If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.

I don't have to do the lead. If I dig a part, I'll do it.

I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.

I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes.

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.