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I'm not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.

While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.

A lot of comics aren't their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn't always ranting and raving. What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.

My comics have changed so much over the years, in the writing, in art style, sometimes incrementally, sometimes quite suddenly. So I've cultivated an audience who will go along with me because they trust me.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

I'm a comic writer, in some ways, and a comic person when I'm up at a podium, in order to disguise the fact that in my heart I'm disgustingly earnest.

My persona has always been what a man was never supposed to be. Outrageous, gregarious, crazy, silly, funny.

The best comics enlist you to take accountability for who you are, whether you like it or not.

I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.

I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much.