Suffering Is A Good Teacher.

You Have To Meet All Of The Challenges, Big And Small. Because How You Start Is How You Finish.

I Know Doing Movies Is Where I Need To Be. That's Where My Audience Wants To See Me.

When I Started In The Clubs, I Had To Work Places Where Didn't Nobody Else Want To Work. I Had To Do Clubs Where Street Gangs Were, Had To Do Motorcycle Gangs, Gay Balls And Things Of That Nature.

I Was In Love With A Lot Of People, Because I Was A Student Of The Game Of Comedy - Carol Burnett, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Don Rickles, Red Foxx, Moms Mabley - Who Gets No Credit, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, George Kirby. I Loved Them All, And I Used To Just Take A Page Out Of All Of Them.

I Learned Hard Lessons In Life; I Had To Because I Had So Much Happen: My Mother Died My Sophomore Year In High School. The Next Year, Same Day, My Brother Dropped Dead. Two Years After That, I Got Married Because My Girlfriend Got Pregnant. The Year After My Wedding, My Father - Who I Had Only Recently Met - Died.