I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

When you`re first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you`re young and you`re black, you do a bad movie and you`re through.

I tell people that stand-up`s like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.

I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie roles you wanna pick. I think if you`ve got an interesting life, you wanna do interesting movies about interesting things.

Traveling - even to Los Angeles - it was big... When I went out there with my country accent, people would laugh at the way I talk. They`d be like, "Say `orange` again." I`d be like, "`Orange.` What?" Now, going around the world, it`s such a great experience, I feel so blessed, because I get to see the world. I get a broad perspective of the world, and we`ve got so much here in America - and in Africa, there are places with no clean water, places with no schools, no hospitals. That really took me by surprise - well, educated me a lot. I would say in the last six years I`ve been doing a lot of educating myself about what`s been going on in the world... Yeah, I just enjoy traveling, because that`s how I educate myself, and there`s nothing better than traveling to a place [to learn] about it.