American - Producer | August 9, 1974 -
I wanted to be a doctor, because I grew up on 'Cosby.'
Kenya Barris
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At 24, I was probably making more than 95 percent of my friends. I was burning through money.
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I feel like money is an interesting thing when you don't come from it.
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Most importantly, I want my kids to be happy. You're only as happy as your saddest kid.
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For me, it was important to keep my name in 'mainstream Hollywood.'
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I've found that the more honest and true you are and can talk about a character and people's experiences, it's less ostracizing. It actually has the opposite effect than one would think. It makes the characters and the story more inclusive.
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I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders.
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As wild and raunchy as Richard Pryor was, people related to his honesty because they found something in their life that they understood.
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No one's pro-police brutality.
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For me, one of the big things I really worried about a lot was nuclear war growing up.
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You get a little older, and you start understanding the world in a different way and what you don't have control over and what you do have control over.
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If Adam Sandler does a bad movie, he doesn't bring down the whole white race. But if Tyler Perry does, it's like, 'See what you guys do?' and that type of thing.
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