I get that racism exists, but it’s not a catalyst for my content. I don’t need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with ‚topics‘ – race, white versus black – you’re not separating from the pack. You’re doing what everybody else is doing.

I look just like the girls next door… if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

People say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‚race‘ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.

El Salvador is a democracy so it’s not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans… I have heard a single voice.

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.

I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.

Anti-Semitism is real in this country.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I’ve always worked hard.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

I am a beneficiary of the American people’s generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

I do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

I hate the idea of genres.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

We don’t want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.

If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

Stand-up is hard.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

I’ll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.

It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

I’ll be like Bob Hope, touring when I’m 100.

I don’t think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort – again, referring to Fox Broadcasting – to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.

I don’t get up, get dressed, go out, and think, ‚Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.‘

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

I’m spending a year dead for tax reasons.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality – we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What’s the point?

I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.

Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it’s dangerous.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

If you’re gonna make connections which are innovative… you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.

Take my wife… Please!