Because I have a girlfriend, I try and take the straight and narrow path, which is good because it prevents VD.
Reality really is theater. There's no other way to describe it. It's all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.
I've done jiujitsu a huge chunk of my life, and I try to spend a lot of time educating people on the nuances, the subtleness of the ground game. It's a big part of mixed martial arts.
People want their 15 minutes and are willing to do anything to get it.
You're sort of programmed a certain way because of your environment. That's all you know. But we don't have that anymore because of the internet. Because of the internet we're all communicating with each other all across the board, so you're getting information from people all around the world, hitting a much more diverse slice of culture.
I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.
I've been involved in mixed martial arts since 1997 when I first started working for the UFC.
Being a celebrity or anything else where you're really ambitious, it's really a game to see how successful you can get.
I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.
If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.
If you are the greatest, why would you go around talking about it?
It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.
My act is so completely and totally uncensored that the only way I could really pull it off is if I treat the audience like they're my best friends.
People for the most part can smell lies.
The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.
I never want to compromise my act just to get a laugh.
But it's hard for a chick to do comedy. It's not as open for them.
I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.
I do cagefight commentary in my spare time.
Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.
