Quotes from Chris Tucker

I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie roles you wanna pick. I think if you've got an interesting life, you wanna do interesting movies about interesting things.

My mom raised me to never have anything control me.

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.

It was like a family reunion, watching the movie. It's always a good feeling when I can get a screening for my family.

I couldn't imagine not having clean water.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I've actually tried to give Brett Ratner dance lessons, but he thinks he already knows how to.

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.

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.

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.

That's the last time I let Wesley Snipes help me out with my taxes!

I travel. I do a lot of traveling around the world.

You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don't say nothin' 'bout the money. 'Hi, how ya doin'? How's ya mama doing?' Man, how's my money doin'?

Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.

I do a lot of traveling around the world.

When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

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.

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.