Chris Rock admits why he refused to help his innocent best friend’s brother pay for a lawyer to fight a murder charge.
"When you're black, white people believe every accusation is a conviction"
"Black men get accused of shit they didn't do all the time"
"went to jail for 19 years for a murder he didn't commit"
"I always stay out of lawyers 'cause it's so open-ended... I'll pay your mortgage, I'll put whatever... I always stay out of lawyers"
"Every day in the paper, we let black men out of jail, go 'whoops... that black guy just did 30 years, too bad'"
"His brother used to plead with me to pay for a lawyer for Roger, and I never did it... I had the means to help him and I didn't"
Ben Affleck reveals why he was secretly happy when his parents got divorced
"They sat down at the table and they said, 'We're getting divorced.' And I remember thinking, 'I should try to look sad.' Can I try to cry? Or should I be sad? But I was so happy"
"There was always some reason he didn't get a job... 'Well, so-and-so's an asshole.' How come everywhere you work, everybody else is an asshole, and you're a genius?"
"There was a lot of friction. My dad was hiding beer cans under the stairs... I'm 5 years old thinking like, that's not a good place to hide something"
"They bought [a house] in 1977 for $30,000. And my mother paid $600 a month in mortgage for 30 years and paid that mortgage off"
"It was clear to me that I want this to be over with. I don't think I was mature enough to be happy for her... I just was like, this is a problem, and there's all this conflict"
"The actor in me was just trying to remember. And the real truth is, I was embarrassed to say I don't think I could do it"