Quotes About Struggle

When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect.

It takes a while to realize that just because you're a stand-up comedian and you do comedy, you're not going to be good at all comedy.

There's a fear when you're a comedian of just being hectoring, so you do try to fight against that.

Comedians are not well people. Well people are not drawn to creating.

The apartheid people were actors, and they had to act out their part in their beliefs every day. That's why we always saw them as being comedic.

People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.

So the only things I was being allowed to audition for were small roles in comedies. It broke my heart. No one would see me for anything else. I knew, in order to open up my career, I had to leave or that's all I would ever be given.

I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.

It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.

America is a very seductive place in terms of lifestyle and comfort, but it wasn't for me.

There's a history of enslaved African-Americans having to make their slave masters comfortable. This business of what we call skinning and grinning - that is something African-Americans are very much cognizant of.

I think anytime in someone's faith journey, my faith journey also, you go through doubting... I think you kind of have to go through that, honestly, just to ask the tough questions... I mean, life is crazy, and to know that, honestly, a loving God is walking through it with me is very comforting for me.

When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage.

Nobody knows the life of the working comic.

I never wanted to be road comic.

The comic book world is a tough business.

Art was a way for me to express myself and for me to also escape because it was tough growing up as a child. We didn't have a lot of money. I was always creating. I was writing stories. I was doing comic books. I made my own universe.

For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States.

Comics are actually a lot more difficult to read than I thought they would be. After my second 'Deadpool' comic, I kind of gave up.

I'd say a lot of black comics were forced to do the black comedy circuit. I'd go into black comedy clubs and see what they're going through, which is different because they're almost made to be in another world.

You love the game, but it's hard to do the things you do when you're feeling like you're a leg down all the time, literally. Or you're always beat up, even coming into the season. So it's just not as fun when you're down, and you got to work your way up. And you can't really get there because you're so beat up.

Everything was coming my way, but I was going down. I was painfully empty.

After I beat Rose and won the belt, I heard too many comments along the lines of 'Oh, that was luck.' You think that doesn't get to you?

I went to a few really bad commercial auditions because I needed the money, and when you booked a commercial, your life was made: you could eat.