Success is not the absence of failure it’s the persistence through failure.
My parents were vegetarians. I’d show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.
People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair, wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future.
For a little while, my mom was a school teacher. And I went to the school that she taught.
I feel if you believe in equality, you have to believe in it for everybody. And that’s the way I’ve always lived my life.
Chris Parnell’s a genius, so he’d be amazing on ‘Who’s Line.’
I have this insane and unabated longing for San Francisco. I come up there every chance that I get.
One of the first movies my dad took me to see was the original ‘Road Warrior.’ And I was kind of raised on the action movies of that era: ‘The Terminator’ and ‘Die Hard’ and, of course, all of the ‘Star Wars’ movies.
Marriage is a mystery, and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
For someone to say that marriage is only about procreation is a joke. I didn’t marry my husband to have children. I married my husband because I love my husband.
Marriage is a blood sport. Marriage is jousting. It’s disembowelment. It’s just terrible, terrible visceral injuries. It’s not for everybody.
If you look at shows like ‘Def Comedy Jam’ in its heyday, there were so many really funny, talented black comics that never would have gotten on that show because they just weren’t doing comedy that fit that mold.
I grew up on the back of a motorcycle – my dad didn’t have a car until I was a teenager.
I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn’t do anything academically around the arts.
My dad, he was a construction worker. He was a butcher. He was a deep sea fisherman.
I was raised by a single dad, and I’ve always kind of liked things that are typically more guy-oriented.
I was raised by a single dad. Dad’s idea of hanging out with your kid or day care was give her $20 in quarters, drop her at the arcade, and tell her not to talk to strangers.