Tracy Morgan
Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a person's whole life. Trauma.
America doesn't like to hear about things like welfare. 'Don't talk about that. We don't like what it did to people!' Yeah, but it happened.
There aren't a lot of guys out there keeping it real. Everybody's been branded. Everybody's been bought and sold.
My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me, he was still a rock star.
I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.
I don't get on the phone and prank people and things like that on the phone with people, no.
I love working with Alec Baldwin. He's one of the five greatest actors ever to live.
If she's not spoken for, and you come at her correctly, like a man, she'll get with you.
The sexiest part of a woman's body is the back of her kneecaps.
There's nothing wrong with looking at a woman's kneecaps.
The further you go, what, I'm gonna wait til I'm 80? Naw, I'm tellin' my story now. I was just moved. I was moved to tell my story. You know? People write books all the time.
I've gone through my trials and tribulations, and sure, it's gotten bumpy and all that, but I'm here. OK?
I know how people are. We fixate on controversy and all that.
Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.
There's ups and downs of any job. If you worked at the post office, there's ups and downs. You have your good days, and you have your bad days. If you're a housewife, you have your good days, and you have your bad days.
'Saturday Night Live' was the joy of my life.
For my first gig, I got $75. I could make money being funny, so I pursued it as a career and have turned it into a lucrative business.
When Richard Pryor did comedy, it was like he was having a conversation.
Comedy should be easy, not laboured.
If I gamble, I'll play roulette. My wife and I will play roulette, and that's about it. I'm not a heavy gambler.
The only person who knows what's in my wallet is my wife.
I'm a black man in America, so I'm going to be misunderstood.
I don't control the line of 'funny,' 'funny,' 'funny,' 'not funny.'
Everybody's out to get something from somebody. 'Gold diggers' doesn't just mean money, it can mean time, it can mean feelings. It can mean anything when you're taking and not giving. When people don't know how to reciprocate.
I have a heart. I want people to see me with their heart and not their eyes.
I don't believe in storks. I know they don't deliver babies; they deliver pickles.
They say when opportunity knocks you should let it in and invite it to sit at your table. F*** that -- when opportunity knocks, you should take it captive. Beat that s*** down. I've got opportunity tied to a chair in my basement with a ball gag in its mouth. Opportunity ain't even thinking about leaving my house. If you keep quiet for a second, you'll hear it whining.Collection: Thinking
I love this cornbread so much, I wanna take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant.Collection: School
Don't follow in my footsteps. Be original, and create your own path. Be a trailblazer! Do you! Be better than me. Do you! Be happy and have joy in your life.Collection: Joy
I can't watch American Idol... it's like karaoke without the booze.Collection: Funny
My father said: "If you want to catch your girl cheating, you knock on the front door and run to the back, because he's coming out the back."Collection: Girl
I don't take any relationships for granted and I won't ever again. I just enjoy life.Collection: Enjoy Life
Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken nuggets.Collection: Rocks
I live life and I don't take it for granted.Collection: Live Life
I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.Collection: Mirrors
The truth is if I had a gay son, I would love him just as much as if he was straight… I might have to try to love even more because I know of the difficulty that he would have in society.Collection: Son
Make your judgments and then you don't have to worry about it. You're always going to have those people who are offended about every little thing.Collection: People
If you don't laugh, you're going to cry and people are crying. That's why I guess you have lots of people like comedians to keep us laughing.Collection: People
Eddie [Murphy] is an icon. He's one of the reason why I started doing comedy in the beginning. He opened a lot of doors for black people.Collection: Doors
When I do stand-up... I get to do whatever I want to do. There's no boundaries. You'll get to know me. You'll leave with a piece of me.Collection: Pieces
I'm old, and so busy with work, that I like to just stay home and get my sleep now. I try not to burn both ends of the candle.Collection: Home
I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.Collection: Mistake
Because Eddie [Murphy] came from where I come from, the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. People in the projects used to call me Fat Murphy.Collection: People
Listen, Bruce Lee fought out of anger. That’s why they call it the Fists of Fury. Michael Jackson danced with fury. I do stand up out of fury. I’m not mad at anybody. I’m not mad at any human being because I’m a human being.Collection: Mad
I think people would want to see Tracy Morgan host Saturday Night Live.Collection: Thinking
I don't even deal with politics. I just don't believe in them. I think politics are politricks. My whole thing is power to the people. I don't put my faith in any one man. I keep my faith in God. That's where I keep my faith.Collection: Believe
My father was the role model I looked up. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me he was still a rock star.Collection: Stars
When I was a young kid, my pops introduced me to it. He took me to Harlem, 145th and Edgecombe, to watch the filming of Claudine with James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll. That was my first taste of seeing a set and the cameras, and I was bit by the acting bug at a young age.Collection: Kids
I'm from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. So, you grow up around police officers. Some of them are in your family, some of them you have encounters with. I had a young police officer we were friends with in our group.Collection: Growing Up