Chris Rock Quotes

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

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• What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Up
  • Now
  • Bigger

• If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Important
  • Real
  • Truth

• It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Care
  • Ability
  • Protect

• Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • History
  • Humanity
  • Language

• I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Would
  • Fragrance
  • Fanatic

• I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Up
  • Music
  • Believe

• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Insult
  • Okay
  • Principal

• It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Up
  • Good
  • Morning

• We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Heroes
  • Conflicts
  • Tale

• One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Up
  • Community
  • Respect

• One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Want
  • Getting Older

• I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Love
  • Theatre
  • Movies

• I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Think

• It's all because of my parents that I am gifted with such good looks and people get attracted to me. I have built an image in the industry, and because of that, I have so many female fans. I want to build my male fan following, too.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • Good
  • Parents

• It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Great
  • Free
  • Foundation

• In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Children
  • School
  • Water

• I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Writing
  • School
  • Job

• The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • Money
  • Business

• I was the Pink Pansy or whatever, wearing this crazy thing.

  

  Kel Mitchell
  • Crazy
  • Pink

• No one is such a liar as the indignant man.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Man
  • Liar
  • Indignant

• What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.

  

  Jeffrey Donovan
  • People
  • Green

• So I have people who tweet and ask me, 'You can't be this happy all the time. You can't be this cheerful.' Well, yes I am. From where I've come from and my family and what I see as real struggles in day to day life, through my reporting. I'm never going to look at challenges.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Ah, with the Grape my fading Life provide, And wash the Body whence the Life has died, And lay me, shrouded in the living Leaf, By some not unfrequented Garden-side.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Life
  • Garden

• Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

  

  Chris Rock
  • Life