"When you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference between a miniskirt and a…"

"My audience and the stories that I tell are African-American stories specific to a certain audience, specific to a ce…"

"…when I come to work here and every black person that comes to work here they go, 'Oh my God, it's heaven. Here we ar…"

"(My mother) loved Madea…She told me whatever you do, don't stop playing this character. She loved Madea. My mother, e…"

"My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model…And my mother who was trying to protect me from h…"

"Those audiences are my critics. They tell me right away! I learnt very early on how far I can go, what I can and can’…"

"That has never been heard of in the history of television. It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a…"

"I didn’t want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I’ve tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter o…"

"Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable. I love my…"

"I have to thank Eddie Murphy, 'cause after I saw him do the Klumps [in Nutty Professor II], I said, "I'm going to try…"