Chris Rock Quotes
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I have no idea what my best material is. Different people like different things. I'll say this: The political stuff gets the press, but the relationship jokes sell all the seats.
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Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to.
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President of the United States is you know, our boss, so you know, the President and the First Lady are kinda like the Mom and the Dad of the country. And when your Dad says something you listen.
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Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy.
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A white boy that makes C's in college can make it to the White House.
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Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everybody else.
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Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!
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You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing.
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Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.
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Funny is only something that others know about you - you can't be funny by yourself.
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Do you know what the good side of crack is? If you're up at the right hour, you can get a VCR for $1.50. You can furnish your whole house for $10.95.
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I think my best work is when I'm kind of in charge.
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Hollywood's just not funny.
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Every now and then I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me, and I experience racism. Things like not being buzzed into a store or sitting in first class on a plane and having someone ask to see my ticket four times.
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I live way below my means.
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Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.
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I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird.
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Anything I say about women, I try to make sure that at least five or six friends of mine are going through a similar situation. That way I'm not picking on my wife.
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I'd like to be in a Spike Jonze movie. But I live in a Nancy Meyers movie.
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When I started out in comedy, it was common knowledge that it took about 10 years to get good. And that was okay because it took you about 9 years to get on television.
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Pretty girls have problems too.
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Show me one guy or woman as funny as Rodney Dangerfield or as good as George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, or Joan Rivers. There are a lot of good comics out there, no doubt, but as far as the quality of the comics goes, I think what you have is a bunch of situational comics.
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I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.
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Most parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men.