T La Rock Quotes

Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area and Michigan.

I see the people in Detroit are very - they're like a lot of cities, but they're very proud to be from there and they really want to see change and they really want to see good things happen.

I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do.

I fell in love. It was a great thing to be in love. I was a complete idiot in love.

Rap's the occupation, but one day watch I'll be Pimp of the Nation.

Personally, I don’t like inherently happy people. I don’t trust them. I think there’s something seriously wrong with anyone who isn’t at least a little let down by the world.

The great times were never as great as they seem in the rearview mirror.

An entertainer's reputation as a live act is the most valuable thing he or she can have. If people know you give good shows, you'll never be broke for the rest of your life.

God bless America. And no place else.

Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy.

Being a comedian is a lot like being an athlete. If you're Carl Lewis and you're the fastest, then no matter what you're the fastest.

If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty.

We were so poor my daddy unplugged the clocks when we went to bed.

Comedians are the one who have to tell the emperor he has no clothes on.

Tell me if this is wrong. Justin Bieber … is 100 percent like watching Vanilla Ice all over again. It's exactly the same. Well, as soon as Bieber has a hit, he'll be like Vanilla Ice.

Girls are always like, 'Oh, you're much better-looking in person than in pictures.' I'm kinda like, 'Er, thank you? I think? As in, I'm not as ugly as you thought?'

I do believe in standing up for what you believe in and your family and your friends.

These poor kids in Baghdad have no running water, no showers. They wipe with baby wipes. My heart goes out to them.

The thing about Barack Obama, just from being around him, is he's cooler than the other politicians, but just nerdy enough to do the job. Like you can't be really cool and be the president.

I have a couple of guys to do my laundry. Just because I'm lazy and rich.

Money is the best lotion in the world.

Welcome to the 77th and last Oscars.

There's no way anyone in the world is having more fun than I am. I truly believe that.

This country's going to have a revolution if something doesn't happen the haves and have - nots.

When I do stand-up, I'm basically doing a one-man show.

Why does anything ever happen? Some things happen and some don't.

Well, I was born and raised in Rochester, New York.

I know every Skynyrd and about all Johnny Cash songs.

Only a woman can make you feel wrong for doing something right.

Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.

If a kid calls his grandma "Mommy" and his mama "Pam", he's going to jail!

You don't pay taxes; they take them from your check. That's not a payment - that's a 'jack.

You only know that you're smart because you're around dumb people from time to time!

Stop the violence! Can't we all just get along?

If you live below your means, you can turn down stuff all the time.

My past is a bit checkered.

I don't need a president with a bucket list!

Not a Harvard-type education, just a not-sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education.

All girls want to be sexy.

I think celebrity endorsements hurt politicians.

Out stretched hands and one night stands, still I can't find love.

Everything's funny - in the right context and done by the right person.

I learned pretty quickly that it's your WORK ETHIC that LEVELS THE PLAYING FIELD. Education helps, but I've met failures who have Ph.D.s. I believe the hardest worker is always going to win.

There's math, and everything else is debatable!

The wrong answers are stopping the right ones from emerging.

An artist is generally expected to stick to one motif, one persona. People get used to seeing someone put down a certain thing.

Gas is getting so expensive I'm gonna ride a mexican to work.

We hovered above the moment like two rain clouds

How unladylike of you to mention such a thing.

One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.