Top 244 Quotes & Sayings by Tracy Morgan - Page 4

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

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

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.

Outside of show business, I live a normal life.

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.

What am I afraid of? The IRS. Thats it. I dont want those people knockin on my door, man.

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

Young stand-ups, we ought to do comedy in George Carlin's spirit, in Richard Pryor's spirit, in Jackie Gleason's spirit, in Lucille Ball's spirit, because they did it with the spirit.

I don't like doing stand-up for little kids. It's not geared for that.

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

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.

Fame doesn't matter. Money doesn't matter. Those things are forever fleeting. 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.

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.

George Carlin is an influence on a generation. He made me want to do comedy.

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.

I'm not afraid to move away from funny. I'm not afraid of that.

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

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

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.

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.

The truth is if I had a gay son, I would love him just as much as if he was straight… I might have to try to love even more because I know of the difficulty that he would have in society.

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

Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken nuggets.

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

When I do stand-up... I get to do whatever I want to do. There's no boundaries. You'll get to know me. You'll leave with a piece of me.

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.

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.

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

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

Everything I talk about in stand-up is my experiences as an American, as a father, as a husband, as a black man, as a human being.

I've got to show life as I see it.

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.

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

Stand-up is mine. It's a part of me.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I can't watch American Idol... it's like karaoke without the booze.

My father said: "If you want to catch your girl cheating, you knock on the front door and run to the back, because he's coming out the back."

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

I just see myself as a short, dumpy guy with bad feet, and I'm passionate.

I can make people laugh at the drop of a dime. God's given me that ability.

Live every week like it's shark week.

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.

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.

I'm not a hateful person and don't condone any kind of violence against others.

Stand-up is really personal. It's not like somebody else is writing the script and you have to do what they write.

Saturday Night Live' was like a university for funny.

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

Eddie [Murphy] is an icon. He's one of the reason why I started doing comedy in the beginning. He opened a lot of doors for black people.

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

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 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'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.

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

Listen, Bruce Lee fought out of anger. That’s why they call it the Fists of Fury. Michael Jackson danced with fury. I do stand up out of fury. I’m not mad at anybody. I’m not mad at any human being because I’m a human being.