J.P. Morgan Quotes

I love being around people who love to do what I love to do, which is comedy.

I was like any other inner-city kid with a chip on his shoulder because his daddy and his mommy wasn't together.

Stand-up is really personal. It's not like somebody else is writing the script and you have to do what they write.

What am I afraid of? The IRS. Thats it. I dont want those people knockin on my door, man.

Too many people focus on the thing, instead of the heavenly glory of it. I don't want to give away what to expect.

Let's focus on the funny. ... That's what I'm focused on... This is the gift God gave me. That's what I want to touch in people.

I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night.

If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.

I don't really take the college tours and all that. Those are young people and I'm quite sure they're mature enough to understand, but they haven't seen or lived real life yet.

I never wanted the ha-ha-ha laughter [at my shows]. I always aimed for the gut. I always aimed for the pretty girls in the front row, laughing and leaning over and pooting.

Martin Lawrence is one of my comedic heroes, and he's a genius.

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.

A stand-up's job is to hold the mirror up to society and to look at what we're afraid of. That's why we had shows like 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons.' We made fun of ourselves then.

If we all had a little bit of Michael Jackson in us, I think it would make the world a better place.

I spread love wherever I'm at. I'm like Marvin Gaye.

I'm not focused on the outrageousness. I'm just focused on being funny, and raising my kids. I don't even read the newspaper, I don't read that crap.

I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.

Stand-up and comedy is the place where we are supposed to be able to make fun of all of the world's ills.

I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working.

I don't do drama. I'm a comedian.

I think people would want to see Tracy Morgan host Saturday Night Live.

If you can survive 'Saturday Night Live,' then you're good as far as show business is concerned.

The things I did on Saturday Night Live are going to stay as Saturday Night Live. You've never seen Eddie Murphy do a Gumby movie. There's a lot more new material inside of me.

I'm not really much into politics, because it's rarely discussed in my line of work, but I know that Barack Obama is trying his best, and that at some point down the road, he's going to get it right.

To me, politics is a pile of tricks.

People bring camera phones into comedy shows and clubs and concerts, and sound bites never come out right.

Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes.

I had a great time working on 'Saturday Night Live.' It was one of the important times in my life.

I want to let my fans know I love them and I'm coming your way and I'm bringing truckloads of funny.

Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.

I'm around my kids every day. I'm regular. We're a regular family. My wife cooks, she washes clothes, I read books, I pump my own gas, I get my own hair cut.

Life smacks Tracy Morgan in the face, and I don't mean to talk in third party, but no, it doesn't stop raining when I come outside, no, absolutely not. I'm very in touch.

I don't need no stool and mike stand. I don't need all of that to be funny. I've been funny my whole life. This is a gift God gave me. I spread love wherever I'm at. I'm like Marvin Gaye.

A Corpse or a Ghost- I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.

[Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find something important to work on.

Valentine WeatherKiss me with rain on your eyelashes, come on, let us sway together, under the trees, and to hell with thunder.

I'd found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.

All the stuff you can’t wait to get away from, until it’s not there anymore, and then you miss it like crazy.

In a well-ordered universe...

The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for them.

Roger, he has a chain saw, " I hissed. "I am not going to die in Kentucky!

What was the point of trying to run away if people were going to insist on reminding you of what you were running from?

I think most are too afraid to see the truth.

The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there.

And we were kissing like drowning people breathe-- like suddenly we'd discovered something that has never been so sweet before that moment.

You + Mesaw this...AMERICAThank you for finding America with me

There was no hope in death, only an end.

Dullness it is that perverts and corrups the spirit but it is always possible to look past the dullness, and see the bright, shining heart of things

Keats was getting a reputation just when he was too ill to appreciate it or build on it: his country was taking notice of him just when he would have to leave it.

His will to live was waning, and it made him almost transparent, as though rather than dying, he might just disappear one day, leaving behind only a vague scent of regret.