Chris Tucker Smokey Quotes

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. ~ Chris Tucker

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

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

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. ~ Chris Tucker

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. ~ Chris Tucker

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. ~ Chris Tucker

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

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. ~ Chris Tucker

I travel. I do a lot of traveling around the world. ~ Chris Tucker

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. ~ Chris Tucker

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

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. ~ Chris Tucker

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

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! ~ Chris Tucker

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. ~ Chris Tucker

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

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. ~ Chris Tucker

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

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

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. ~ Chris Tucker

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. ~ Chris Tucker

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. ~ Chris Tucker

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. ~ Chris Tucker

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

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

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.' ~ Brett Ratner

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. ~ Chris Tucker

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! ~ Chris Tucker

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. ~ Chris Tucker

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

I couldn't imagine not having clean water. ~ Chris Tucker

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. ~ Chris Tucker

Being a son, brother, uncle and brother-in-law is all I care about. ~ Chris Burke

One story ... one life ... one me ... consistently! Live It Well. ~ Chris Vonada

Dear Ian, I felt good. I felt like a Christian to the T. Also to the Chris, Ian. ~ Jarod Kintz

You have a lot of explaining to do!" Conner said and crossed his arms. "You should probably have a seat."

"I'm sorry, did someone promote you to parent?" Charlotte said and glared at her son. ~ Chris Colfer

I've set the intention that all who ask to receive attunements from me receive them perfectly and instantly the moment they call them in regardless if the attunement is prepared in the past, present or future and regardless of who the recipient is. ~ Chris Comish

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go. ~ Chris Pine

The reason I make movies now has a lot to do with having seen Star Wars when I was seven years old. That's the formative movie-going experience of my life. ~ Chris Weitz

I grit my teeth. Despite everything, I mutter with a smile, "No."
"No, what?"
"No, I'm glad you came."
"I haven't ... yet."I slap my book across his arm, blushing furiously.
"You're impossible."
"And you're incredible. ~ K.A. Tucker

I loved to always get naked. I was very free, so I thought, I may as well get paid. ~ Chris Pratt

I hadn't read comics really before coming in to shooting the original 'Thor.' During that and beforehand, I read stacks and got my head around it all. We reference, especially when we were putting the script together before we started shooting, other stories. ~ Chris Hemsworth

Made in America. Heck, let's make everything in America. Let's make pride and trust and teamwork more than chalk on a Harvard blackboard. ~ Chris Bent

I was filming 'The Avengers' when I got the call for 'Rush,' so I went from 215 pounds, which is how much I weigh when I'm playing Thor, down to about 185 pounds to be able to fit into the car. That was all in about four months. ~ Chris Hemsworth

People are always going to, you know, find something wrong with people who are not the exact same as them. That's just what it is. Black, white, short, tall, religions, whatever. People are bad. ~ Chris Rock

Money is a tantalizing whore, isn't she? ~ K.A. Tucker

It hits him again with the strength of a revelation. Rhythm rather than harmony is the organizing principle. Rhythm is what connects everything together.
We all walk to a melody we hear inside our heads, he thinks. But that rhythm beats differently for each of us. Perhaps love, then, he considers, is where an absolute synchrony establishes itself between two people. ~ Chris Greenhalgh