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As a writer you sometimes feel the need to shake things up.
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
I set out to have a diverse staff on the 'Bernie Mac Show.'
I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
When I was growing up, it was not the heyday of the western.
Richard Pryor was my hero. Richard Pryor was keeping it 100.
I'd rather kill myself than work in the music industry today.
I didn't really feel I was being hurt, but you could feel it.
I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.
You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
I am an instrument of purposes that I don't fully understand.
Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you.
If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.
Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.
I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.
Procrastination always gives you something to look forward to.
There is no communication in this world except between equals.
I'm happiest in an empty church. I love the smell of a church.
You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.
The important part of dreaming is what you do when you wake up.
Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.
I prefer to linger on the periphery before making a commitment.
All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.
To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.
Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.
You want to harbor your resources and try not to make a mistake.
I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.
'The Daily Show,' at its core, is the answer to the nightly news.
In Los Angeles, they don't want you to fail, they want you to die.
If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.
Think of ideas as a beat. To change a mind is to change the world.
I only said 'Titanic' is unwatchable because one can not watch it.
Apes beat their chests so they don't have to fight 24 hours a day.
'Westworld' is bizarre. I don't know what to think of 'Westworld.'
Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene.
I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
Insanity is just what we call stupidity when it doesn't make sense.
I've always felt like I had a guardian angel in some of those ways.
There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.
On stage, don't go near her. She's the best performer in the world.
I always fight hard to push a movie to the point where it pulls me.
If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.'
I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
Underneath this tired, middle-aged exterior, I'm an 11 year old kid.
In L.A., you just kind of come and have a nice hiking-yoga-gym life.
It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.
I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.