Chris Tucker Quotes
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I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.
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Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It's a good thing. That's why I want to work.
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I do a lot of traveling around the world.
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It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.
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You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don't say nothin' 'bout the money. 'Hi, how ya doin'? How's ya mama doing?' Man, how's my money doin'?
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You know, we're missing so much as African-Americans and we should be concerned about what's going on in Africa.
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I love traveling. It not only opens my mind up, but it also allows me to use my fame in another way through humanitarian works and stuff, and being an influence around the world.
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This country is just that great that the opportunities are there for a Hispanic president, a black president or any other race for a president, yes.
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I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.
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I feel like every time I go out, I want to do a good job. I want people to say that he's just as good at stand-up as he is in some of the movies I've seen him in, so I try to do the best every time I go out there.
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I've got a big closet of scripts, and a big stack of scripts on the side of my desk, because you get a whole bunch. Nothing's going to be perfect, and I realize that; but I am a perfectionist, so you go through a lot of stuff.
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Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.
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I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I've done, I'm going to do a lot of great work in the future.
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I travel. I do a lot of traveling around the world.
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Everybody goes through a lot of the same things, and I talk about those, and that's the key. You have to connect with your audience, and I might take them on a trip with me, tell them I went here and I went there and they'll go with me, you know, to hear the stories.
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A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different.
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You got to control your own destiny. You got to keep writin' different stuff. Keep switchin' up and never do the same thing too many times.
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I want to keep working, I want to keep doing my humanitarian stuff around the world, shining light on different places that have problems. Keep making movies, make people laugh.
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I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.
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Day-to-day life is a lot of work. I work a lot on stand-up stuff, and then day-to-day life and, you know, just living. It's always different. Try to work out, try to stay in shape, and try to have some fun.
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Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me.
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I've actually tried to give Brett Ratner dance lessons, but he thinks he already knows how to.
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I think my life is a movie and your life reflects your work.
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I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.