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I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
As a writer you sometimes feel the need to shake things up.
I set out to have a diverse staff on the 'Bernie Mac Show.'
When I was growing up, it was not the heyday of the western.
I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
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 am an instrument of purposes that I don't fully understand.
I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.
You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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.
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.
You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.
To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.
You want to harbor your resources and try not to make a mistake.
Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.
All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.
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.
Apes beat their chests so they don't have to fight 24 hours a day.
If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.
Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene.
Think of ideas as a beat. To change a mind is to change the world.
'Westworld' is bizarre. I don't know what to think of 'Westworld.'
I only said 'Titanic' is unwatchable because one can not watch it.
On stage, don't go near her. She's the best performer in the world.
If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.'
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.
I always fight hard to push a movie to the point where it pulls me.
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.
In L.A., you just kind of come and have a nice hiking-yoga-gym life.
Underneath this tired, middle-aged exterior, I'm an 11 year old kid.
I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.
No, but Liza took went and took away from me, possibly my livelihood.