Chris Rock Quotes

Now that I have children, I realize taking care of my children is more fun than anything in the whole world.

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• At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.

  

  Karen Bender
  • People
  • Thought
  • Weird

• I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Friend
  • Football
  • Dying

• I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Play
  • Working
  • Class

• As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I'd get a boob job.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Job
  • Look
  • Said

• I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Pressure
  • Hard Work

• I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• I'm an honest, open father.

  

  T.I.
  • Father
  • Honest
  • Open

• No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Looks
  • Wrong
  • Sounds

• Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

  

  Rachel True
  • Women
  • Beginning
  • Editing

• I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Life
  • Up
  • War

• I still have a young attitude.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Attitude
  • Young
  • Still

• An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Why
  • You
  • Artist

• Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Imagination
  • Forever
  • Brand

• If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Lazy
  • Get

• I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Try

• I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Myself
  • Behind
  • Reveal

• I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Me
  • Looking
  • Pictures

• Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan.

  

  Jack Black
  • Plan
  • Diet
  • Strict

• Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • People
  • Happiness
  • Contentment

• In all honesty, if somebody asked me the secret of auditioning for Americans, I don't know. Often, I do what's called self-taping for America. I go over there quite a lot to sit in a room and do stuff in front of people. You feel like a performing monkey. It's bizarre.

  

  David Wenham
  • People
  • America
  • Honesty

• I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged.

  

  Elsa Peretti
  • Hate
  • Perfect

• In golf, it's almost impossible to be perfect on each shot; that's the fun and challenge of golf.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Fun
  • Perfect
  • Challenge

• Now that I have children, I realize taking care of my children is more fun than anything in the whole world.

  

  Chris Rock
  • World
  • Children
  • Fun