Lil Rel Howery Quotes

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

Lil Rel Howery

• School
• Church

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

Lil Rel Howery

• Real
• Funny
• Silly

My comedy grows as I grow as a person.

Lil Rel Howery

• Comedy

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.

Lil Rel Howery

• Life
• Mind
• Why

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.

Lil Rel Howery

• Career
• Rest

I'm just saying, and I'm going to say it enough times: I want to play Bernie Mac.

Lil Rel Howery

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.

Lil Rel Howery

• Up
• Time
• Why

I'm a student of Comedy Central. It launched careers: Wanda Sykes and even Kevin Hart. The first time I was introduced to him, he was on Comedy Central. It puts you on the map... Hollywood knows now.

Lil Rel Howery

• Time
• Comedy

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

Lil Rel Howery

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.

Lil Rel Howery

• Music
• Wonder