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Mike Epps [1970-0] American

Rank: 104
Comedian

Michael Elliot "Mike" Epps is an American stand-up comedian, actor, film producer, writer, and rapper. He is best known for playing Day-Day Jones in Next Friday and its sequel, Friday After Next, and also appearing in The Hangover as "Black Doug".

Humor, Money, Music, Respect, Wedding

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On 'Friday,' I had a big trailer, and we would have a barbecue going and music playing. It was a fun set. There was too much involved for 'The Hangover' to be a fun set. They're trying to get money.	Money, Music	101
Just the fact that I'm in the game is great. I'm just blessed to be working. I got a plan, but I'm humble and I try to be humble.		102
I'm humble enough to wait and just chill. I'm having fun just working with these good people, man.		103
I'm a survivor of life. I try to give the glory to God and appreciate what's happening to me.		104
Everybody that's living in this earth is living in a situation. It's not narrow-minded to the point where everybody is serious and nobody has a personality. I think people die telling jokes.		105
They have what you call a black night where they have black people come in for just one night only to watch comedy, and you get all your local drug dealers, thugs, prostitutes, all of them come in, sit down, and listen to you tell jokes. They the hardest people to make laugh.		106
I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton; I'm not playing Ed Norton but my version of it, cause I'm a black man.	Respect	107
We all take losses and it's about getting up and coming back.		108
Every now and then you get a nice Jewish kid who likes black people and they would come in, and it would be a stream of them, and have black friends and really feel the black struggle on the acting tip and it's a reason why all of us are not dying in the movie.		109
You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.		110
Yeah, I don't mess with chicks younger. They got to be almost thirty.		111
She didn't break his heart, but I feel like a man is supposed to be a man, he ain't supposed to be all involved in that. That's why she got sisters and friend for. Just show up with the ring and act right.		112
I've been with this young lady for about two years now, and my life changed. I don't even think that way no more. I feel good, too, that I'm changed. Now I feel regular. I feel like I'm supposed to.		113
I watch old school film so that I can learn so much that I just sort of miss all the new stuff.		114
I don't know nothing about no marriages or nothing. I ain't even never been to a wedding.	Wedding	115
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.		116
I used to be a dusty little child.		117
You know, my life's changed now. I'm starting to experience what people are really supposed to do. You supposed to be married. You're supposed to have a family, kids, treat your wife right.		118
I'm gonna have to develop myself. I'm just going to do the best that I can do.		119
I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.	Humor	120
I love Richard Pryor. I love him to death.		121
I learned that you don't have to be all over the place, that you can be subtle and you can say what you say. The words that you put together can be just as hilarious as falling all over the place or doing something.		122
I don't know why people think I'm this ad-lib dude.		123
I'm telling a Richard Pryor story through me.		124
Cedric, man, it's like if I'm working with you, like I'm sitting here now talking to you, I want to get along with you. That's how I am. I feel like if I get along with you, the work will be splendid.		125
But I'm real conscious about what I do. I don't care what the label is. I'm looking at the outcome of it.		126
I've been doing comedy and paying my bills.		201
The whole Miami Heat team is my least my favorite athlete. Why? Because they keep beating my Pacers.		202
You would be surprised of films that people just don't see. You know what I mean? I'm always working and I'm a film buff but I'm an old school film buff.		203
With Ice Cube they ain't no telling. He might have one cocked and loaded, ready to bust. We might do The Sunday, two old men sitting around the house waiting on the social security check.		204
I left Indiana, and I ain't been back since. I've been doing comedy and paying my bills.		205
Honestly, I feel like I am a leading man, and it's just going to take the right project, the female and the right studio. It's got to all gel together, you know what I mean?		206
Well, I think Hollywood, to be quite honest, I think they've run out of material.		207
I would love to play Magnum P.I.		208
You know how Hollywood is: They just follow suit.		209
To have longevity in this business, you have to reinvent yourself. You can't keep doing the same stuff. Sometimes I've turned down stuff and lost money.		210

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