The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.

I would have felt a little funny if another actor was playing this role.

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies."
Steve Martin

It eventually appeared to be me, cinematically. When I was writing it I was actually an author, you know, writing a book. ... But there certainly is a difference in energy between a younger man and an older man.

By expressing his heart, anger and joy, Richard Pryor took comedy to its highest form.

Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.