Chris Tucker Quotes

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.

What!? You tell people that, I won't get no more black movies?

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

Just believe in yourself and work really hard. And when doors open, take advantage of every opportunity you can.

A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different.

I couldn't imagine not having clean water.

I think my life is a movie and your life reflects your work.

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.

I feel like every time I go out, I want to do a good job. I want people to say that he's just as good at stand-up as he is in some of the movies I've seen him in, so I try to do the best every time I go out there.

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.

One thing about me, when I make a decision about something, I realize when you make choices in life, that dictates your life.

I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.

A lot of lines in movies were written, but I'm always improvising. Once you get into the scene, it just comes to me.

I've lived a little bit and traveled the world and experienced a lot of things that I can play any role, and I think I can get into stuff that people never thought I would ever do because of my experiences and growth as a person.

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.

It's crazy because people expect you to be funny all the time and every day is not a funny day. I go to funerals and people are like 'tell a joke' and 'say one of your lines in a movie.' It's a funeral, man!

In stand-up you can go either way. It's live. Somebody might say something in the crowd, you might respond to it. But in a movie you could be spontaneous too. But you pretty much have to stick to that story or that scene or that script, but in stand-up you can go wherever you want to. It's more freedom.

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!

You know, we're missing so much as African-Americans and we should be concerned about what's going on in Africa.

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 told a joke and people laughed and it was the best feeling. I knew I wanted to do this as a career. I never knew I could get such a high from telling a joke. There's something so extraordinary about having people listening to you and hanging onto your words - it's a great feeling.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

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.

I've been fortunate to work with good directors who understand improvisation and understand the way comedians work. Luke Basan let me do my thing like do what you feel and take the character to another level. Quentin Tarrantino was more of an acting coach. He can teach you beats and then hell say go with it but give this feeling. So I've been fortunate to work with good, seasoned directors.

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 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.

Day-to-day life is a lot of work. I work a lot on stand-up stuff, and then day-to-day life and, you know, just living. It's always different. Try to work out, try to stay in shape, and try to have some fun.

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.

I travel. I do a lot of traveling around the world.

Everybody goes through a lot of the same things, and I talk about those, and that's the key. You have to connect with your audience, and I might take them on a trip with me, tell them I went here and I went there and they'll go with me, you know, to hear the stories.

You see people waving. You dont see people having problems, with each other at least.