Quotes from Tracy Morgan

I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.

You can't hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I'm just a comedian. My job is like Archie Bunker.

In New York, we get down. In L.A., everybody's pretty much standing around like they're at a keg stand. You got to get the party started, so I just take my shirt off.

I'm glad I dropped out of high school, man. I wouldn't be where I'm at. I would have had a net. I'm glad I didn't have anything to fall back on, man, because that made me go for my dreams that much harder.

I don't even read the newspaper; I don't read that crap.

'Saturday Night Live' was the joy of my life.

I have a pretty diverse audience, and that makes me happy - laughter is universal, and I don't differentiate between people at all. Why should I? People are people. There's no reason why one person can't relate to any other person on this planet in some way or another.

I'm not a child star, but you could say that I've grown up on TV. I went from being an unknown, down-and-out comic from Brooklyn and the Bronx to being a regular character on a major network comedy called 'Martin.' From there I went on to become the most notable black comic on 'Saturday Night Live' since Eddie Murphy.

Growing up in the ghetto is pretty hard. It's poverty; it's frustration.

There's ups and downs of any job. If you worked at the post office, there's ups and downs. You have your good days, and you have your bad days. If you're a housewife, you have your good days, and you have your bad days.

If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people.

I'm not perfect, but I strive for it.

Working with Bruce Willis makes my career authentic. I may not get an Oscar, but I worked with Bruce Willis. That matters more to me.

We need to learn to laugh at ourselves because when you don't laugh, you cry. And I don't feel like crying.

I've played outrageous characters my whole career.

Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.

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.

You get somebody to crack a smile, that's a beautiful thing.

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

I deal with my sons like young men. If they have a problem with something, they come to me. I am the type of dad that will drop everything I am doing for them, and always tell them to talk to me about it.

It's just, people recognize you for your work, you know? They love you for your work, and they judge you for your work. It's awesome to have people quoting you. I love it.

I'm old, and so busy with work, that I like to just stay home and get my sleep now. I try not to burn both ends of the candle.

I'm not really much into politics, because it's rarely discussed in my line of work.

I'm not really much into politics, because it's rarely discussed in my line of work, but I know that Barack Obama is trying his best, and that at some point down the road, he's going to get it right.