Quotes from Tracy Morgan

I do comedy for real people.

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

I think it's good that I get scared because, if you never get scared, you don't have any need for guts.

I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.

God gave us dreams, but he gave us kids to make all those dreams worthwhile. And when I look at all my kids, I say everything that I've ever went through in my life was worthwhile.

If I gamble, I'll play roulette. My wife and I will play roulette, and that's about it. I'm not a heavy gambler.

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

That's a gift God's given us: the ability to work together in collaborations.

They say that every Jewish person is supposed to love one black person in his life. I'm glad Lorne Michaels chose me.

In my heart, I really don't care who you love, same sex or not; as long as you have the ability to love, that's the important thing here.

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.

Whenever I perform, people get me because I'm talking about things that people can identify with and relate to. I'm not just up there doing jokey, jokey, joke.

I have a nice following in Boston. The Boston crowd is very hip.

I think hip hop is dead. It's all pop now. If you call it hip hop, then you need to stop. Hip hop was a movement. Hip hop was a culture. Hip hop was a way of life. It's all commercial now.

Black people dance well because we start early - there's music being played everywhere. White people? They don't start dancing until they get to college, and by then, it's too late; the bottom don't move with the top no matter how hard they try.

If you can get your life down to one minute at a time, you don't miss anything. You have total abundance of information and material.

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.

I'm a human being. I feel all emotions. I'm not just happy all the time. Sometimes, I'm sad and feel the blues. Sometimes I even want to feel the blues. Sometimes, you want to feel down.

I love this cornbread so much, I wanna take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant.

I remember when I was on 'Saturday Night Live' my first year, and I wasn't getting much. I was down; I was ready to quit.

You have to give a wound time to heal and think of other people's feelings.

If I get some Bruce Lee nun-chucks that he actually used in a movie, those are going in the case. Those will never be used. Those will never be touched.

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

Yeah, race exists. Racism is still here, and it's doing well. Turn on the news. I don't think me and my comedy can really change that.