Chris Rock Quotes

Welcome to the 77th and last Oscars.

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• I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Exist

• The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Way
  • Lose
  • Election

• When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do my modern, and I couldn't do it. They asked me if I had a song prepared, and I said 'No,' so I sang 'Happy Birthday.' And I did a reasonable improvisation, a reasonable one, nothing special at all. I don't know how I got in, but I did.

  

  Hans Matheson
  • Happy
  • Song
  • College

• I always thought golf was a game reserved for the rich and the elite... But it's a misconception. It's a highly technical game, and it's a game that you can play and master alone. You require sharp skills for it, and you can play the game alone.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Game
  • Alone
  • Thought

• I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Go
  • Second
  • Academia

• With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Up
  • School
  • Friends

• Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Great
  • Today
  • Game

• Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Power
  • Man
  • How

• A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • Great
  • Movie

• People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • People
  • Feel
  • Frightened

• If you're going to play high school football, you do it in Texas or Florida or Georgia for the simple fact it's such a big deal.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • School
  • High
  • Simple

• For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Feeling
  • Control
  • Poetry

• I consider myself black.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • Black
  • Myself
  • Consider

• I am opposed to it under any and all circumstances, and in our convention urged our party not to commit themselves at all upon the subject.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Party

• Endurance is mind over matter.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Mind
  • Endurance

• In the years that some of my colleagues have served - 20, 30 years - they’ve never seen it like this.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords

• So things have gradually and gradually gotten worse and worse until the country is absolutely on the rocks now, and the people are suffering. And this is our hope, because so many people are suffering, have been persecuted and have been told 'Get into line, or else', and they know what 'or else' means.

  

  Ian Smith
  • People
  • Country
  • Hope

• In all of my books, I really want to work with working-class people. My goal is to show the moments of grace and dignity in their lives.

  

  Matt de la Pena
  • People
  • Work
  • Moments

• The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to which may be added, as of the same nature, coarse, ribald jokes, foul stories, and low small talk. Some would have us believe that profanity is a sign of masculinity and emotion maturity.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Stories
  • Emotion
  • Conversation

• Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child's confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers' lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson.

  

  Criss Angel
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Amazing

• Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks, and do what you really want to do.

  

  Paulo Coelho

• Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him?

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Child
  • Writer
  • Creates

• Welcome to the 77th and last Oscars.

  

  Chris Rock