Tracy Morgan
I come from where Mike Tyson came from. I come from right across the street from Jay-Z. I didn't have a pond in my backyard. I saw violence.
I remember when I was on 'Saturday Night Live' my first year, and I wasn't getting much. I was down; I was ready to quit.
When you see me on the street, act like you know me.
When I want to work on my material, I go to Benihana or the barbershop.
I'm art. You're art. We are God's greatest works, simple as that.
Most creative thing I've ever done? Got somebody pregnant.
I do comedy for real people.
I'm glad I dropped out of high school, man. I wouldn't be where I'm at. I would have had a net. I'm glad I didn't have anything to fall back on, man, because that made me go for my dreams that much harder.
My fans would love to see Brian Fellow come back. I love my fans. And they like my edge.
White women love me 'cause of my edge. And I love white women.
Yeah, race exists. Racism is still here, and it's doing well. Turn on the news. I don't think me and my comedy can really change that.
I know my spirit is not mean, and I have a very good spirit and a funny spirit.
No one set that I ever do is the same. I mean, if I go to a comedy club, and I perform three sets, all three sets are different because anything can happen in between sets.
If you can get your life down to one minute at a time, you don't miss anything. You have total abundance of information and material.
I do my best creating on stage.
My voice is very distinct. People hear Tracy Morgan's voice, and they know Tracy Morgan right off the bat because I've been in their homes for so many years.
Working with Bruce Willis makes my career authentic. I may not get an Oscar, but I worked with Bruce Willis. That matters more to me.
People are just way too sensitive. You couldn't have a show like 'Archie Bunker' on TV. People would go crazy; they would lose their minds.
I have a nice following in Boston. The Boston crowd is very hip.
Whenever I perform, people get me because I'm talking about things that people can identify with and relate to. I'm not just up there doing jokey, jokey, joke.
I think hip hop is dead. It's all pop now. If you call it hip hop, then you need to stop. Hip hop was a movement. Hip hop was a culture. Hip hop was a way of life. It's all commercial now.
Where I came from, people couldn't afford to go to the theatre.
If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people.
What you have to understand is that my thing is not glamour. I love stretch marks and C-section scars and all of that. I'm a grown man. You don't gotta put on no makeup with me.
To me, politics is a pile of tricks.
Growing up in the ghetto is pretty hard. It's poverty; it's frustration.
I'm not perfect, but I strive for it.
What am I afraid of? The IRS. That's it. I don't want those people knockin' on my door, man.
I have friends who are black, white, purple, gay, straight, Martian, yellow, old, and young. I have friends who are animals and a few who I believe to be robots. All of them are people to me. In my mind, it's not about what you look like or what you do; it's about who you are inside.
I'm no Jerry Seinfeld. I wasn't raised with some backyard with a creek and trees and all that.
That's a gift God's given us: the ability to work together in collaborations.
Comedians are the monkeys of acting. When you go to the zoo, everybody loves the monkey exhibit.
It's like going to the zoo when you come to my house. I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider.
I know how bad bullying can hurt. I was bullied when I was a kid.
And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly.
People bring camera phones into comedy shows and clubs and concerts, and sound bites never come out right.
Welcome to post-racial America. I'm the face of post-racial America.
You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my grandfather was African-American, so we all got a little something in us.
Most people don't know what's happening around them because they're just speeding through life. And before they know it, they're just old. So I just try to slow it down.
I'm human, I feel, I understand. That's the highest level of love, is understanding - when you can understand someone, when you can love them with their flaws and their faults. So I understand, I consider. I may speak the truth, but I'll consider your feelings, too.
Some people believe everything they see on TV. People, it's called tel-lie-vision!
When you look at the artists who have come up through 'Billboard' over the years, it's incredible.
We need to learn to laugh at ourselves because when you don't laugh, you cry. And I don't feel like crying.
I love '30 Rock' because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week.
So I think all comedians are earning their wings into heaven. We're all going to heaven, but everybody's not going to get their wings. Some people are just going to be regular angels. Doing cleanup, janitor work. In heaven, I'm going to sit on the couch with Oprah.
I was like any other inner-city kid with a chip on his shoulder because his daddy and his mommy wasn't together.
'Saturday Night Live' was like a university for funny.
I don't have anything against Jimmy Fallon. I love Jimmy Fallon. He's my dude.
I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.