Top 244 Quotes & Sayings by Tracy Morgan
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Last updated on September 16, 2024.
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.
If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people.
And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly.
I don't have anything against Jimmy Fallon. I love Jimmy Fallon. He's my dude.
They say that every Jewish person is supposed to love one black person in his life. I'm glad Lorne Michaels chose me.
I'm not getting any younger. You're not getting any younger, so yeah. You age.
I had a great time working on 'Saturday Night Live.' It was one of the important times in my life.
I have my Lucky Charms in the morning, and I feel magical.
Stand-up is my foundation. That's where it started at. And I love it because it's personal. It's mine. It's all me. It's my experience in life.
What am I afraid of? The IRS. That's it. I don't want those people knockin' on my door, man.
Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.
What you have to understand is that my thing is not glamour. I love stretch marks and C-section scars and all of that. I'm a grown man. You don't gotta put on no makeup with me.
You will be surprised but I do a lot of studying and I watch National Geographic.
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 would love to try action films.
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.
My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.
I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night.
To me, politics is a pile of tricks.
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.
Martin Lawrence is one of my comedic heroes, and he's a genius.
A stand-up's job is to hold the mirror up to society and to look at what we're afraid of. That's why we had shows like 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons.' We made fun of ourselves then.
Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.
You get somebody to crack a smile, that's a beautiful thing.
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.
I'm human, I feel, I understand. That's the highest level of love, is understanding - when you can understand someone, when you can love them with their flaws and their faults. So I understand, I consider. I may speak the truth, but I'll consider your feelings, too.
If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.
I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working.
When a child is born, it's born with a heart of gold, but the way of this world can turn that heart cold. I'm still a good person, and I thank God for that - He's working with me on it.
Having a daughter makes you see things in a different way. You have to see how you're carrying yourself because there's a little girl. There's not a little boy, there's a little girl. I think I'm a little more overprotective.
That's a gift God's given us: the ability to work together in collaborations.
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've been funny my whole life. This is a gift God gave me.
'Saturday Night Live' was like a university for funny.
So I think all comedians are earning their wings into heaven. We're all going to heaven, but everybody's not going to get their wings. Some people are just going to be regular angels. Doing cleanup, janitor work. In heaven, I'm going to sit on the couch with Oprah.
It's very important to be in your child's life and know what's going on and be there with them.
Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes.
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.
People walked out on Richard Pryor and he's the funniest man alive.
What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts.
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.
I don't need no stool and mike stand. I don't need all of that to be funny. I've been funny my whole life. This is a gift God gave me. I spread love wherever I'm at. I'm like Marvin Gaye.
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.
We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.
Comedians are the monkeys of acting. When you go to the zoo, everybody loves the monkey exhibit.
I want to be an example of a guy who made something of himself out of nothing. A guy who overcame the odds of a tough childhood, who worked hard, who didn't let his surroundings get the best of him and lead him to jail or the graveyard. Where I ended up - being a comedian, a TV star, and a movie actor - might be unique, but my story is not.
I love '30 Rock' because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week.
I spread love wherever I'm at. I'm like Marvin Gaye.
I don't have a hateful bone in my body. I don't believe anyone should be bullied or made to feel bad about who they are.
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.
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 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 just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.
I was like any other inner-city kid with a chip on his shoulder because his daddy and his mommy wasn't together.
As a child, I was able to know that I wanted a better life.
Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses.
Growing up in the ghetto is pretty hard. It's poverty; it's frustration.
If you can survive 'Saturday Night Live,' then you're good as far as show business is concerned.
Everybody's out to get something from somebody. 'Gold diggers' doesn't just mean money, it can mean time, it can mean feelings. It can mean anything when you're taking and not giving. When people don't know how to reciprocate.
I think the word 'pregnant' is funny.
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