I`m like the Hulk on stage. It`s way over the top. That`s Bizarro Chris. Sometimes I get off stage and go What did I say?!" I`ll watch one of my [stand-up] specials a year later and go "Eww, that was mean."
My life was Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995). I would get beat up every day, called "nigger" and spit on. You get used to it. I couldn`t fight back, I was so outnumbered, so I would just stand there and take it. The worst part is that, after a while, your ...
[about Charles S. Dutton`s criticism of "Martin" (1992)] Is Charles Dutton funny? Huh? At the end of the day, no. He`s not. Charles Dutton is not as funny as Martin Lawrence. Now, I got nothing against Charles Dutton... but let`s be truthful here. If "Roc...
There`s no interference in stand-up. It`s all the things it`s hard to get in film: I get to have a wife, I get to have kids. I get to be sexual. I get to grow. I get to be a man.
I shouldn`t be able at this late date to go into a club and be better than guys who are there every night. Nobody really wants to be a stand-up, they want to get on TV. Everybody wants to be "Seinfeld" (1990), nobody wants to be Jerry Seinfeld.