If you have a CLASS of 35 children, and they're all smiling, and there's one little bastard, and he's just staring at you as if to say 'Show me', then he's the one you THINK about GOING HOME on the train.

Imagine the anticlimax of OPENING a NOVEL you'd just got Dostoyevsky to sign and finding 'Keep SMILING - Fyodor.'

I haven't ever had so many WOMEN COME up to me and tell me that I made them cry. And they're smiling about it, which is kind of an ODD THING. Usually it's not a GOOD thing.

When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you PUT in. I have a JOB I really love so WHATEVER hecticness comes up - I'll just DEAL with it.

For BLACK people who are really DARK - and a lot of black people were averse to be dark skinned - it was believed that you'd be so dark that you couldn't see them at night unless they were smiling or you could see the whites of their EYES. At one time, it was a sharp COMIC barb that got levelled at some people.

People SEE me high-fivin' and SMILING on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just WANT to GO out and be myself.

When I was a boy, my own DAD told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a WISE man that knows his own FATHER.