Quotes from Eddie Griffin

I'm old enough to remember the '70s. The '70s is a different time.

My family is an open book. They don't hide.

Comedy is a tool to be used so that people can relate to each other.

When I first got here, Vegas still felt like a destination. Now it's become a real city.

I am telling you, Lebanon was fun. I played for 5,000 people in a sold-out venue. The clubs there don't even open until 4 A.M. If a bomb goes off, people don't get excited. They live every day like it's their last because it could possibly be.

I like racism above the ground so it can be dealt with, but when it's subversive and subjugated, it gets real dangerous.

Actually it broke my heart to hear that we were going to have to part ways, ... It's a business and they had to do what they had to do.

Me, I'm an avid CNN watcher.

America is one big dysfunctional family and we are still trying to figure out how to live together.

Everybody's family is dysfunctional.

People are just people; the only thing that's different is the form of government that leads them astray.

That was my first Hollywood lesson: Just because you filmed a movie doesn't necessarily mean that you're in it.

My mama whupped me away from the penitentiary.