Lil Rel Howery Quotes

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Lil Rel Howery

Profession : Actor

Birth : December 17, 1979

I used to watch 'Last Comic Standing' with my mom before she passed. So when I got that red envelope, I was extremely emotional.

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Directing is so dope to me, man, 'cause it doesn't necessarily have to be your material. You're making someone else's material come to life. There's something amazing about that.

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The biggest thing is we need to stop acting like racism don't exist.

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So people thought once Obama got into office that racism was over with. But, what we ended up learning was that it just came more into the light.

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You have these kids trying to make these grown up decisions because nobody is talking to them. We're talking at them, but we're not listening to them.

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I can't wait for the rest of my career to meet these young writers and filmmakers so that I can produce and push a lot of their stories out there.

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My respect for TSA agents went up a notch. We look at 'em like, 'You can't bother me, I'm gettin' on my flight. Stop wastin' my time.' They're doing it to protect us. Their job is to do everything they're doing. We sometimes don't respect other people's jobs because we're caught up in our world.

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I'm not gonna go steal an airport car and go save someone. That's crazy. But I will do almost anything for any of my friends.

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There's a difference between delivering real funny and just silly funny.

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Everybody makes a decision about where they want their career to go. If I really want something, I put a lot of effort into it. If I don't want something, I won't.

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I love acting. I was one of those dudes that was always in the plays in the church and at school.

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The honesty of my material and my being vulnerable was from Richard Pryor. He doesn't mind talking about his life, which is why I think he was one of the dopest to ever do it.

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Not everybody gonna be in front of the camera forever, man. That's impossible. Don't get me wrong, I love doing that. But behind the scenes and the power is what I like. I like being in control. And maybe someday I'd be a showrunner.

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I was a huge Wu-Tang fan, along with Crucial Conflict, along with Do or Die along with Mobb Deep.

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I'm a hip-hop head, but hip-hop actually introduced me to other genres of music because I started to wonder where a lot of these samples came from. So I fell in love with Bobby Womack or Willie Hutch because I wanted to know where those samples came from.

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I know I'm being biased about Chicago, but I think Chicago got the most talented people in the world.

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Let me tell you, there's nothing like pulling up to Fox Studios bumping Jeezy in your Mercedes.

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When I started comedy, I was a big Eddie Murphy fan. I thought if you did stand-up, you were supposed to know how to act, write, and host. I thought it was all one thing. That's why it doesn't feel like I'm transitioning to acting: because in my stand-up, I do characters all the time.

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Some of the scariest movies I've seen are not considered horror movies, like 'Gone Girl.' That movie scared me. I can't watch it again.

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I want to do more films - not just comedies, because I really want to show my range.

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