In your last special, you said laughter is the sound of the basketball going through the net for you. They laugh at me for no reason.
Maybe a face I make: "Daddy, you're so crazy. In both specials, you shadowbox before you go out and tell jokes. That's just because I'm an old fighter. I'm an old boxer from when I was young, and that's how I used to train. It just gets me loose and everything before I go out there. What are you thinking in those moments? God give me the strength to be the best I could be. Please allow me to be funny. Do you worry about that, not being funny?
Hell, yeah, I don't take it for granted. I don't just say, "Oh, it's automatic. I know I'm funny, I know I'm blessed with a gift, but I don't take it for granted.
Every audience is different every night. Everybody don't agree with every joke you say out of your mouth. And they are even more sensitive today with the social media and everything else. It's crazy. Has there ever been a moment when you had real doubt about whether your gift was available to you? The only time I ever doubted was the first time I ever went on stage. I bombed. That's when I doubted if this was for me. But then I paid my money for the weekend show, and I came back and I would just study the headliners and the middle act and the opening act, and then I got back on stage, and it was for me.
How did you go from boxing to stand-up comedy? I would always have people in my neighborhood, crowds standing around, and I would have them laughing. My teacher would give me the last five minutes of class to make people laugh. Her name was Ms. We called her Froggy. She was our art teacher. She gave me the last five minutes to make people laugh.
But you gotta be funny to get out of the class. And she said, "Here, I'm gonna give you that. This is for open-mic night for you to try out.
In this business, just to be known for anything is a blessing. So if I'm known for Bad Boys, so be it. If I'm known for my stand-up, so be it. If I'm known for the Martin show, so be it. I'm just blessed to be known. Do you feel like your relationship to the industry has changed at all since you began working? I just feel like I'm changing with the times. I'm trying to understand the times and trying to understand how to change with the times.
It's a little different. Negotiations are different. How are they different? They may pay you less. Or they may pay you more. You may not have the starring role in the movie. You may be the co-star, you may be the principal actor, you may be a supporting-role actor. You've just got to change with the times.
Do you feel ready? My eyes are open. The people that were telling me that I was insane knew what was going on. This was troublesome. I showed up to work in the first week where my office used to be and they built a wall there. It came up in the paper later, that I wanted it there. I bounced. Because certain people around me were putting my sanity in question, I would meet too much obstruction if I was doing something like this his show.
You cannot imagine what celebrities go through. Show business has to do with compromise and wearing that mask alter personas. You gotta put that mask on. I have nothing but love for her, and I always have. Elsewhere in the interview, Lawrence reflects on his career beginnings, feeling overworked at the height of his stardom, and taking a break from the entertainment world. The Maryland native also touches on the turbulence of his past, such as the aforementioned arrest for carrying a concealed weapon, slipping into a coma, and learning to walk again.
And Will, to his credit, refused to do the movie until the script was right. Little Birds. The Girlfriend Experience. The Deceived. Death and Nightingales. The Gloaming. Confronting a Serial Killer. The Luminaries. In The Long Run.
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