Quotes from Chris Rock

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.

My first year on 'SNL', I made $90,000 dollars. And I bought a red Corvette for $45,000 dollars. I'm thinking, 'I've got 45 grand left!' Taxes didn't even come into my equation. At the end of the first year of making 90 grand I was 25, 30 in the hole. We live in this baller, spend-money culture.

After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.

I love my life, but I don't think I'm any happier than my younger brother Andre, who drives a garbage truck.

Kids always act up the most before they go to sleep.

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack. That should be the name of my new DVD: 'Chris Rock: Slightly Above Hack'.

I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.

I love seeing black people do normal things, being judged as normal people.

I just love New York. New York has energy, it has culture, New York is very diverse. There's not a better place in the world.

When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they're crazy, because 'sacrifice' infers that there was something better to do than being with your children.

Here's what I knew about doing a play: I knew it would make me a better actor.

The government doesn't want you to use YOUR drugs, they want you to use THEIR drugs.

Women can have all the evidence but they still want the confession.

People want what they want. And I guess that is a reason we have this big credit card problem and a lot of these foreclosures.

I think if I were to get as big as I could get, it does change your mind-state. I think like the little man. I think like the underdog. I don't want to change that.

I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.

My mother is the kind of woman you don't want to be in line behind at the supermarket. She has coupons for coupons.

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 think all the funny people were bullied. When they talk about outlawing bullying, it's like, what? You want no Comedy Central?

Black History Month is in the shortest month of the year, and the coldest-just in case we want to have a parade

I love being famous. It's almost like being white.

President of the United States is you know, our boss, so you know, the President and the First Lady are kinda like the Mom and the Dad of the country. And when your Dad says something you listen.

Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.

Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everybody else.