Tracy Morgan Quotations | Page 2

Who's coming with me? I don't know where I'm going, but who's coming with me?

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.

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.

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

Anybody who's lived in the ghetto knows that you don't move during the daytime. Here's why: You don't want anyone to know you're leaving, and you don't want anyone knowing where you're going.

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.

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.

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.

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'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.

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.

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.

My older brother was born, who was a cripple, then I was born, and my sister was born, the only girl. So I was between the only girl and the crippled guy. I was the middle guy.

My voice is very distinct. People hear Tracy Morgan's voice, and they know Tracy Morgan right off the bat because I've been in their homes for so many years.

No one set that I ever do is the same. I mean, if I go to a comedy club, and I perform three sets, all three sets are different because anything can happen in between sets.

The further you go, what, I'm gonna wait til I'm 80? Naw, I'm tellin' my story now. I was just moved. I was moved to tell my story. You know? People write books all the time.

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.

When I want to work on my material, I go to Benihana or the barbershop.

The only person who knows what's in my wallet is my wife.

Of all the sicknesses, there is probably none more abusive than homophobia.

My heart is committed to giving everyone the same rights that I deserve for myself.

My fans would love to see Brian Fellow come back. I love my fans. And they like my edge.

I love '30 Rock' because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week.

I love animals, but I don't want to talk to them. I'd rather be able to talk to other people on other continents and understand them.

I have my Lucky Charms in the morning, and I feel magical.

Whatever I did on 'Saturday Night Live' is going to stay and remain on 'Saturday Night Live.'

What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment.

There aren't a lot of guys out there keeping it real. Everybody's been branded. Everybody's been bought and sold.

Ladies are honest. They're my motivation. They know what's funny, and the dudes just follow.

It gets scary when you're dealing with people who don't know how to separate fact from fiction.

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.

Rock bottom for some people is death. Some people never learn from their mistakes. They don't learn from other people's mistakes.

Some people believe everything they see on TV. People, it's called tel-lie-vision!

I was never a big comic book fan. I was always more into the baseball cards.

Most creative thing I've ever done? Got somebody pregnant.

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

When you see me on the street, act like you know me.

When Richard Pryor did comedy, it was like he was having a conversation.

There's nothing wrong with looking at a woman's kneecaps.

I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York.

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

The most romantic thing I ever did to my woman? I painted her toenails!

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

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

I've gone through my trials and tribulations, and sure, it's gotten bumpy and all that, but I'm here. OK?

I've got friends who want money but don't want to do anything to earn it.

No matter what, if my son was gay, I'd treat him like a king.

The version of me you see on TV now and in my feature films is a pretty happy guy, isn't he?

I want to show the world my humor.

I mellowed out; my daughter mellowed me out, and I don't get mad at anyone.

I'm not getting any younger. You're not getting any younger, so yeah. You age.

I'm a black man in America, so I'm going to be misunderstood.

I love working with Alec Baldwin. He's one of the five greatest actors ever to live.

I'm no Jerry Seinfeld. I wasn't raised with some backyard with a creek and trees and all that.

I'm art. You're art. We are God's greatest works, simple as that.

If she's not spoken for, and you come at her correctly, like a man, she'll get with you.

I know how people are. We fixate on controversy and all that.

I have the person at home, the person who has his privacy, too. Michael Jackson didn't do the moonwalk in his kitchen.

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.

For my first gig, I got $75. I could make money being funny, so I pursued it as a career and have turned it into a lucrative business.

If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?

If I make fun of somebody at my show, believe me, it's something we can all laugh at.

I don't even deal with politics. I just don't believe in them. I think politics are politricks. My whole thing is power to the people. I don't put my faith in any one man. I keep my faith in God. That's where I keep my faith.

I'm not really struggling about my career. The struggles are in my personal life. I can't really pinpoint how long it took me to get where I'm at, and I didn't care how long it was going to take, because it's not about the destination, it's about the journey.

I want to let my fans know I love them and I'm coming your way and I'm bringing truckloads of funny.

The things I did on Saturday Night Live are going to stay as Saturday Night Live. You've never seen Eddie Murphy do a Gumby movie. There's a lot more new material inside of me.

My sense of humor was a tool for me getting past my mother and father separating, my older brother having cerebral palsy, and the bullies in the schoolyard. I had to make them laugh to keep them off my ass. I brought that to my professional career.

I give [Barack Obama] a 10 [on a scale of 1 to 10] because he's not God, and he inherited a couple of wars, and a financial mess.I want to see him curse somebody out on TV. You can't finesse a bull. He's gotta throw down. He's in the shark tank.

I live life and I don't take it for granted.

I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I'm long gone my great-great-grandchildren can walk up to it and say, "That's my ancestor." That will be my legacy.

I love being around people who love to do what I love to do, which is comedy.

I love Ice Cube and Charlie Day. They're brilliant men, great actors and very funny people.

Stand-up and comedy is the place where we are supposed to be able to make fun of all of the world's ills.

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

I never wanted the ha-ha-ha laughter [at my shows]. I always aimed for the gut. I always aimed for the pretty girls in the front row, laughing and leaning over and pooting.

I'm very giving. Even if it's for nonsense, I'll give it to you.

Let's focus on the funny. ... That's what I'm focused on... This is the gift God gave me. That's what I want to touch in people.

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.

When I'm in the mood to listen to music, I do like to go to the SkyBar [ L.A.].

When I was a young kid, my pops introduced me to it. He took me to Harlem, 145th and Edgecombe, to watch the filming of Claudine with James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll. That was my first taste of seeing a set and the cameras, and I was bit by the acting bug at a young age.

I'm from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. So, you grow up around police officers. Some of them are in your family, some of them you have encounters with. I had a young police officer we were friends with in our group.

The actors are different, although I didn't set out to be different. My inspiration came from people like Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence and Will Smith. The genre is what it is. My inspiration was drawn from great movies like 48 Hours, Bad Boys and Rush Hour.

If you don't laugh, you're going to cry and people are crying. That's why I guess you have lots of people like comedians to keep us laughing.

Make your judgments and then you don't have to worry about it. You're always going to have those people who are offended about every little thing.

I'm not focused on the outrageousness. I'm just focused on being funny, and raising my kids. I don't even read the newspaper, I don't read that crap.

My father was the role model I looked up. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me he was still a rock star.

Because Eddie [Murphy] came from where I come from, the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. People in the projects used to call me Fat Murphy.

Every person has contributed to me as a human, but a lot of the characters I do are ones I created.

I think people would want to see Tracy Morgan host 'Saturday Night Live.'

I don't take any relationships for granted and I won't ever again. I just enjoy life.

I don't do drama. I'm a comedian.

My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of The Color Purple. It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same.

Too many people focus on the thing, instead of the heavenly glory of it. I don't want to give away what to expect.

I touch on sex in my stand-up and it's funny, because when I talk about sex from an adult point of view, people cringe. But if I talk about war or killing, people laugh. So it's sick. It's really demented.

I don't really take the college tours and all that. Those are young people and I'm quite sure they're mature enough to understand, but they haven't seen or lived real life yet.

If you can survive 'Saturday Night Live,' then you're good as far as show business is concerned.

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 like to do stand-up for people who live real life.

Having a daughter makes you see things in a different way. This is my only girl. So I don't care what it takes to protect her. You can call it what you want to call it. As long as you treat her the same way I treat her, like my princess, I don't mind.

Bones heal, but the loss of my friend will never heal,