The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved.
Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind.
I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.
You can't fit your clothes well and look your best if you don't know what you're working with.
Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world.
The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'
My mom worked as a pharmacist, but she is one of the best storytellers I know. My sister is a gospel and opera singer and my brother, who passed away, was a writer.
The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work.
And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
As a standup comedian, I've worked almost every New Year's Eve of my adult life. It's the best-paying night of the year.
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She was tough in the best sense of the word. She'd taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way through them. Some people, he knew, would have buckled under, found a clutch, or given up. But she had carved a place for herself and made it ...
