"This was my motto: 'Don't come up with routine stuff.'" — Rudy Ray Moore

I have to thank my mother for this. When I was a little boy she used to teach me poems. I would go in church and tell the poems in church for the Easter program, and again for Mother's Day and any occasion she felt would fit. I was very energetic with delivery at that time as a boy, so it stuck with me.

Busta Rhymes, I have to give him credit for one thing: he always lays the red carpet out for me when I'm in New York.

These guys Steve Harvey and Cedric the Entertainer and Bernie Mac claim they're the Kings of Comedy. They may be funny, but they ain't no kings. That title is reserved for Rudy Ray Moore and Redd Foxx.

You know, I hope that someday they make a movie about me. People need to know the story of 'Dolemite;' they need to know my story.

I have become their idol. Like, Busta Rhymes has called me twice to come to rap with him, and Big Daddy Kane and Eric B and Rakim, I made a trip to do things with them.

Luther Campbell is the only person that has ever paid me for sampling me. I'm out for the rest of 'em, but the young man paid me.

I've been sampled at least 71 times. Me, James Brown and George Clinton, we're the ones who've been sampled the most.

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This was my motto: 'Don't come up with routine stuff.'