Quotes About Evolution

Back then, if you had a sore arm, the only people concerned were you and your wife. Now it's you, your wife, your agent, your investment counselor, your stockbroker, and your publisher.

What's funny is that male strippers don't wear thongs anymore. They wear flat backs.

When I first started I was always known as The Girl on the Sitcom with the Funny Voice.

I want to show you that you can be funny and hot. You can drink and read. People are still getting used to what I am.

As I get older, the character evolves tremendously because I'm married and have kids now and realize certain things are not funny anymore. I threw them out of my act.

Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.

All my best girlfriends play guitar now, which is kind of a funny world to live in.

I try to think of something catchy to say, but there's nothing but irritation that something that was funny yo an eleven-year-old boy is still funny to a seventeen-year-old one.

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

I was married once before, and I stopped.

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

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.

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

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.

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

If god meant for people to talk into cellphones, he would've put our mouths on the side of our heads.

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

There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive.

After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.

A family is a group of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.

I never thought that someday men will also use an iPAD.

I'd love to be what I have been.