There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

Without Cambodia, I may never have become a mother. Part of my heart is and will always be in this country. And part of this country is always with me: Maddox.

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.

TV’s a big deal in prison. A big deal. People watch it nonstop.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

She got her looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

My mother, my grandmother, my uncles would play Ethiopian artists like Aster Aweke and Mulatu Astatke all the time in the house.

I like a drama.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

My father opened a restaurant. It’s so amazing… it’s so freaking delicious, but I’m telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Since the very beginning, Emeril’s had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

My opinion can be completely different after a show.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

I don’t think comedy will ever die.

Writing is fun – at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That’s easy to manage.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

SNL is a home. You’ve got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it’s a great time.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

I listen to my mother, and that keeps me out of trouble. I’m a good son.

So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they mess with me, and I’ll say, ‚That’s right, keep the same haircut for ten years.‘ How fun is that?

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

Wrestling is intimate. You can reach out and touch the wrestlers.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.

You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.

The ‚Billionaire‘ song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It’s funny.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

I have a lot of other stuff to accomplish before I get to kids. Whenever the time is right, I’ll just know. If I had a girl, she’d probably be really rebellious. She would be like a bundle of karma. I would love to bring them up in Barbados.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

I enjoy driving on the sim, doing stuff like that, staying at home.

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can’t imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.