Chris Tucker Quotes
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.
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'?
Just believe in yourself and work really hard. And when doors open, take advantage of every opportunity you can.
When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.
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.
One thing about me, when I make a decision about something, I realize when you make choices in life, that dictates your life.
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.
A lot of lines in movies were written, but I'm always improvising. Once you get into the scene, it just comes to me.
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.
You got to control your own destiny. You got to keep writin different stuff. Keep switchin up and never do the same thin too many times.
You don't know who you messing with man, I slap people for fun. That's what I do man! You wanna play rough, huh, I kill for fun!
I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.
I've actually tried to give Brett Ratner dance lessons, but he thinks he already knows how to.
I couldn't tell people what I wanted to do because I was from Atlanta. You don't tell people you're gonna be a comedian in Atlanta. That means you ain't gonna do nothing.
I want to do movies that mean something, that make people laugh and cry great movies, period-piece movies and work with the best people out there, who bring the best out of me.
I love to talk about people I've met being an entertainer. All my encounters in life - I roll it all into an hour and 30 minutes.
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.
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.
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.
So I kept it to myself. Then some of my classmates started to come down to the comedy club, taking a girl out, and they started finding out I was a stand-up comedian.
I think you've got to have a depth, a deeper depth to take stand-up into acting, but I think it really helps you as a stand-up to home into different characters and stuff easily.
Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me.
Georgia was a great place to live, but I wanted to get out because I knew the opportunities for what I was doing - stand-up comedy and eventually acting - were in Los Angeles.
A black President? Now come on y'all, we got Clinton, that's close. He got negro tendencies.
It was like a family reunion, watching the movie. It's always a good feeling when I can get a screening for my family.
