Top 244 Quotes & Sayings by Tracy Morgan - Page 3

America doesn't like to hear about things like welfare. 'Don't talk about that. We don't like what it did to people!' Yeah, but it happened.

I guess I'm entertaining; I guess I'm interesting. I guess the things that I say sell papers. I guess they sell magazines. I don't know.

Having boys is different. Boys, you put sneakers on, and they're out, they're ready. Girls, you gotta pay a little bit more attention to them.

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

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

You have to be highly intelligent to get away with a dumb joke. That takes a pretty smart fella.

Comedy should be easy, not laboured.

All you single fathers got to man up.

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 don't believe in storks. I know they don't deliver babies; they deliver pickles.

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

I know how bad bullying can hurt. I was bullied when I was a kid.

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.

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.

Welcome to post-racial America. I'm the face of post-racial America.

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

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

The paparazzi do what they do, man. They have a job, too.

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

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

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.

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

I believe gay, straight, anybody, everybody's supposed to be happy in this world, man.

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.

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.

If I gamble, I'll play roulette. My wife and I will play roulette, and that's about it. I'm not a heavy gambler.

Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a person's whole life. Trauma.

I've played outrageous characters my whole career.

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

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

I don't control the line of 'funny,' 'funny,' 'funny,' 'not funny.'

My father was the role model I looked up to. 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.

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

The sexiest part of a woman's body is the back of her kneecaps.

There's ups and downs of any job. If you worked at the post office, there's ups and downs. You have your good days, and you have your bad days. If you're a housewife, you have your good days, and you have your bad days.

I got five kids - I claim three for income tax purposes.

I have a heart. I want people to see me with their heart and not their eyes.

Parents should support and love their kids no matter what.

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

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

People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We're losing all of our communication skills.

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

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

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

When you're in the spotlight, people want to dissect you and then put you back together the way they want you.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I don't get on the phone and prank people and things like that on the phone with people, no.

All women like to look up to their men.

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

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

I don't even read the newspaper; I don't read that crap.

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

Don't follow in my footsteps. Be original, and create your own path. Be a trailblazer! Do you! Be better than me. Do you! Be happy and have joy in your life.

I love this cornbread so much, I wanna take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant.

They say when opportunity knocks you should let it in and invite it to sit at your table. F*** that -- when opportunity knocks, you should take it captive. Beat that s*** down. I've got opportunity tied to a chair in my basement with a ball gag in its mouth. Opportunity ain't even thinking about leaving my house. If you keep quiet for a second, you'll hear it whining.