Comedy Quotes & Jokes / page 536
Henry Ford, who despite his immense wealth never owned a Cadillac. Never got a dinner!
I wanted her in a bad way, though I wasn’t sure exactly for what. Had she one day suddenly turned and yelled, “Jam it in!” at me, I’m not convinced I’d have known what to do.
At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn't have something to say on a nightly basis.
Does fashion matter? Always - though not quite as much after death.
I never thought I'd be a comedian. But, growing up, I simply loved watching comedy. The '80s was huge for comedy in the US. Eddie Murphy blew me away with his film Delirious.
We're putting a face on something that a lot of people don't understand, ... And we want to give people some information before they make up their minds and judge us.
School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.
It's very simple. There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.
For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
I broke my arm trying to fold a bed... It wasn't the kind that folds.
Barack's in office; it feels good to be black now. When O.J. was in court it did not feel good to be black. People like, 'Are you black?' I'm like, 'I'm Creole, get out of my face.'
A friend of mine had his own theatre company, and he jumped me in like I was in a gang. And once I came in, it was just that simple. For the first time in my life, I felt, 'This is a career, this is a life that I think I can grow old doing.' It was love at first sight. I loved being on stage and reading these plays. It was great.