I think you’ve got to have a depth, a deeper depth to take stand-up into acting, but I think it really helps you as a stand-up to home into different characters and stuff easily.

A lot of directors, they’re creative, but they’re different.

I feel like every time I go out I want to do a good job. I want people to say that he’s just as good at stand-up as he is in some of the movies I’ve seen him in, so I try to do the best every time I go out there.

When you’re first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you’re young and you’re black, you do a bad movie and you’re through.

I tell people that stand-up’s like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down – or at least three times a week to get it down.

A lot of lines in movies were written, but I’m always improvising. Once you get into the scene, it just comes to me.

I reenact everything. I love to paint a picture for my audience. I’m a lot like Richard Pryor in that aspect. I do a lot of acting on stage, acting out and visualizing stuff. I love to do that. I’m into it so much, it just comes out of me.

What!? You tell people that, I won’t get no more black movies?

I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I’ve done, I’m going to do a lot of great work in the future.

Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that’s where he got his character ‘the tramp’ from. It’s a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.