Chris Rock Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Chris Rock
Chris Rock Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Everyone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is a whole other thing.
Smart is knowing if you're dumb. Knowing when to shut up and to listen to people that are smarter than you.
Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.
Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!
If you want to prevent abortions, you make sure everyone has health care, a high school education and birth control. Not the exact opposite.
I ain't shooting nobody, so call me a faggot. When the war's over, I'll be the faggot with two legs.
You can write a great country record and still be angry. Who's angrier than Toby Keith? He's angrier than the average 10 rappers.
When people try to read between the lines - critics, they have a job. Their job is to make something bigger than it is.
I see guys who can't make 10 percent of what I make, and yet they have four Bentleys, three houses, and four bodyguards.
I love having somebody there - that companion thing. You know who you're going to eat with, who you're going to see a movie with.
Yeah, it's unfair that you can get judged by something you didn't do, but it's also unfair that you can inherit money that you didn't work for.
Artistically I'm curious. But in life? No. I can go to a restaurant and order the same thing for 10 years.
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.
You know you're rich when you have to drive for a half hour to get to your house once you're on your property.
The thing about having an audience right there laughing is that critics can write what they want, but the proof is right there in front of you.
I'm a rap comedian the same way Bill Cosby is a jazz comedian, Cosby's laid back. I'm like, bang, bang bang, right into it.
You know those guys that go to the strip club at the daytime? If you're at a strip club, and the sun is out, you got some problems!
I want to really take chances. I want to be funny in a lot of different ways. I'd like to be great. I want to reach for greatness.
We got no wealthy black people. We got rich people. Shaq is rich. The guy who signs his checks is wealthy.
You just got to be really logical when you're a comedian - to a fault. Like a lawyer's got to believe in the law.
I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.
Do you know what the good side of crack is? If you're up at the right hour, you can get a VCR for $1.50. You can furnish your whole house for $10.95.
One of my daughters told me the other day, "Kevin Hart is funnier than you, Daddy." I told her, "Does Kevin Hart make you pancakes?"
I've seen women who don't have great relationships with their dads, and it all comes down to this: You have to tell girls you love them every day.
Doing something really profound and personal is bigger than a fad.
It's not some passing fancy.
It's always number one.
It's not some passing fancy.
It's always number one.
Before I was a comedian, I thought the coolest thing that would happen to me was to be a teenager. Boy, was I wrong.
Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.
The Democrats should have an empty chair on stage for the entire DNC, and when anyone asks who it belongs to, they can say Osama bin Laden.
When you've been on a ghetto diet your entire life, you're just happy to get a large soda instead of a medium.
My mother is the kind of woman you don't want to be in line behind at the supermarket. She has coupons for coupons.
I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.
When you're doing a big-budget movie and you're four on the call sheet, you've got a lot of free time.
You'd got a baseball game, or a football game, basketball game, "USA! USA! USA!" Hey, calm down! Got a little German on it, don't you think?
Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjoying themselves, and I'm a professional funny guy.
I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.
I'm a big fan of Katt Williams, Jim Gaffigan, Louie CK, Margaret Cho, Kathy Griffin, Rich Vas, Joey Vega and Matt Claybrooks.
Give me a black man, a white woman, a giraffe, a zebra anything but another white man! That last one f***ed up my roof!
I think all the funny people were bullied. When they talk about outlawing bullying, it's like, what? You want no Comedy Central?
No matter what kind of backgrounds two men are from, if you go, 'Hey, man, women are crazy,' you've got a friend.