Roy Wood Jr.
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I think the drive and the gumption, you have to be a little crazy to bet on yourself.
That's inherent.
But I think that the belief that, oh, I could do this, that didn't come from me, that came from Ricky Smiley.
I saw Ricky Smiley on TV in the late 90s, and he was repping Alabama hard.
He didn't just put Birmingham on his back.
He put the whole state on his back.
And nobody asked him to do that.
He just did it.
And when I saw that, I was like, oh, bet.
He can be from the north side and get on TV?
I can do it from the west side.
And that was it.
It wasn't even no big...
Whatever debate or doubt I had about whether or not I belong in entertainment, gone.
But that's what I mean, man.
It's that drive.
It's that thing that you've always had that inspired people like me.
Because, yeah, you saw Ricky, but you still had to go do it, though.
It's not like there was there was a thousand people that were like, oh, yeah, I'm funny, too.
I can go do this, too.