Shut Up Before I Drop

All You Do As A Performer Is Keep Doing It. If You Keep Doing It, Then It Depends On Why You're Doing It. If You're Doing Something For Superficial, Monumental Reasons And If You're Doing It For Female Attention, Or If You're Doing It For Money, It's Like Being Upset. Only Way You Can Get Upset Is When You Expecting Something. If You Don't Get This Award Or Don't Get That Award, That Because You Expect Something.

I Want To Speak Directly To The Audience, To Say, 'i'm Like You - I'm Frustrated, I'm Not An Expert, I Don't Have A Manual On Parenting, I Make Mistakes, I'm Selfish Too.'

I Became The Storyteller Of South Side Chicago. I Used An Old Kiwi Liquid Shoe Polish As A Microphone. I'd Go Around The House Interviewing Everybody, Telling Stupid Jokes, Doing Voices. I Mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., People On 'laugh-in,' Flip Wilson.

I'm An Entertainer And I Really Enjoy Entertaining. I Think If You're Going To Really Be What You Say You Are, You Have To Really Live It, Work It, Practice It, And Think It.

I Can Act. I've Been Acting For A Long Time, But Like Anything Else, Don't Nobody Owe You Nothing. You've Go To Pay Your Dues. You Go From A To Z; You Don't Go From M To Z.