'Nutty Professor' was me going, 'Say what you want to say, but I can do this, and you can't, and nobody else in the town can do this.'

The Nutty Professor II,

I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.

I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.