I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.

Just you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football goes for off the field and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.

Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.

My future's about trying to be a better man.

I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before.

We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda like my own version of '8 Mile.'

Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

So often I read scripts and am like 'This would never happen in real life. It's not trying to be funny. It's trying to be serious.'

It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.

I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent child so I'm trying to back off but it's hard. I love him so much and he's so funny and cute to me.

The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.

Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.

We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.

I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.

Especially with a comedy you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.

With improv it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.

I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew the guys who were trying to be rappers the funny kids.

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's I mean.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.