Quotes About Change

I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.

My job changes very little because I've found that the more you try to be funny, the less funny you become.

Because also, sometimes things that are really funny on the day, when you look at them in post can feel too broad, you know? Sometimes not, but it's kind of weird how that can change.

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.

It's funny but when young people say to me "what can I study to be a force for change, should I study law or biology or business?" My answer is music, drama, journalism, communications.

My whole head is like I've had a face lift.

I'll be back. I'll be black. I'll be white black.

It's funny, you make friends and you lose friends when you're making a movie.

I saw a want ad. "light housekeeping." They said "Here, change this bulb." I said "I'll need some friends."

The sky already fell. Now what?

I plugged my phone in where the blender used to be. I called someone. They went "Aaaaahhhh..."

Nuclear war would really set back cable.

It's funny, the old media idea is very segmented, like "this is my territory and this is yours." But media is changing. You're at a point now where people can start to move into different forms.

My movies before tend to be just funny. But it wasn't a conscious thing I was looking for at all.

I'm not afraid to move away from funny. I'm not afraid of that.

I don't like to channel surf. You guys like it, don't you. You guys like to change the channel. We like to change you.

When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock.So I stopped wearing socks.

Beside me, Philippe and Meg hold hands. He murmurs something that sounds like, "my dear leetle mongoose." I wish he'd turn back into a frog and hop away.

They say the crazies come out at night. I say the crazies come out during election year: Elections have the power to turn once seemingly normal people into certified loonies.

So they finally gave you the license to kill, about time.

Hi's nose was pressed to his window. "I've changed my mind, Tory. This is the perfect place to hold someone prisoner. I'm keeping this on file.

We're too different now. We want different things. And this?" I say nodding at our hands. "All this managed to prove is that you are extremely good at turning me off

Revenge of the Giant Grill Man.