Quotes By Chris Tucker

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

You don't know who you messing with man, I slap people for fun. That's what I do man! You wanna play rough, huh, I kill for fun!

I think my life is a movie and your life reflects your work.

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 do a lot of traveling around the world.

Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me.

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'?

I couldn't imagine not having clean water.

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.

This country is just that great that the opportunities are there for a Hispanic president, a black president or any other race for a president, yes.

I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I've done, I'm going to do a lot of great work in the future.

You know, we're missing so much as African-Americans and we should be concerned about what's going on in Africa.

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

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.