Chris Rock Quotes

My movies are okay, but they're not my specials.

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• I love Mike Tyson. I was a fan, as everybody else was. The moment somebody stood up to him, he didn't do so well. And that's the same thing with Anthony Johnson. The guy's a bully. He wants to intimidate you; he wants to dominate you. He wants to knock you out. But what happens when you don't knock somebody out? What happens?

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Happens
  • Fan
  • Bully

• I am only a dog lover, and I have a nice fawn-colored one at home.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Home
  • Dog
  • Fawn-Colored

• It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Year

• We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • Think
  • Mirror

• Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Real
  • Love
  • Difficult

• However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Slavery
  • Scripture

• However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.

  

  Ice T
  • Easy
  • Week
  • Can

• I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

• You know, 'Viggo' is a pretty dorky name in Denmark. It's like 'Oswald' or something. It's a very old Scandinavian name, at least 1,000 years old.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Years

• What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Growing
  • Change
  • Communication

• I go for drives in the Flint Hills, which is the setting for 'The Virgin of Small Plains'.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Small
  • Go
  • Hills

• A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • American
  • Man
  • Action

• Acting is such a feminine process: you have to become the desire of others. I'm OK with this, and so is Gerard Depardieu. In many ways, he's very feminine.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Desire
  • Acting
  • Process

• The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Moral

• The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Soul
  • Sea
  • Solitude

• I thank God for all the people whom God sent into my life, the people who gave their best so that I could learn to give my best.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• My heart is torn with the sound of raucous voices,They shout from the slums, from the streets, from the crowded places,And tunes from the hurdy-gurdy that coldly rejoicesShoot arrows into my heart.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Heart

• Boxing is made for film - there is corruption, violence, tragedy and the chance that the underdog can catch the champion with one lucky punch.

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • Violence
  • Champion
  • Boxing

• Your city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States, the one whose name, the world over, conjures up the most visions and more than any other, incites one to dream.

  

  Georges Pompidou
  • Dream
  • City
  • Visions

• Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.

  

  Hal Duncan
  • Identity

• Seriously. I'm not playing to prove anything to journalists. I'm playing for myself, for my fans,to make people happy.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Fans
  • Prove
  • Journalist

• My movies are okay, but they're not my specials.

  

  Chris Rock