"You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it."

"Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'"

"Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger."

"A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station."

"I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres."

"This morning someone sent me a very funny photo of me holding their puppy. We have matching colour jackets."

"If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny."

"It's funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you."