I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.
I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.
If you have a flop movie, so what? And if you have a hit movie, it's 'so what,' too - it's on to the next movie.
However wack anyone thought 'Whatzupwitu' was, there's not a lot of people that have footage of themselves dancing around in the clouds with Michael Jackson. I do have that forever.
The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.
I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.
Every now and then, when I think about it, I think, 'What would I even talk about onstage?' It's never been, 'I wonder if I'm funny. I wonder if I can come up with jokes.' It's more, 'What would it be like without the leather suit and the anger?'
I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax.
Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.
Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.
I stopped doing standup because it stopped being fun. And the reason it stopped being fun was it was harder to write - and this was before the Internet - it was harder to write new stuff. It had gotten so crazy.
'Nutty Professor' was me going, 'Say what you want to say, but I can do this, and you can't, and nobody else in the town can do this.'
I used to be the hippest of them all. I used to know everything about everything. I used to read about everything that was going on, and I knew everybody's name and anybody in pop culture. Anything that was written about me, I would read.
'SNL' is part of my history. I got on the show as a kid. That's the show I got known from.
Being on 'SNL' gives you a unique experience that almost no one else has. It's like Harvard for the comic actor.
As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
