I'm a rap comedian the same way Bill Cosby is a jazz comedian, Cosby's laid back. I'm like, bang, bang bang, right into it.

Chris Rock

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I love my life, but I don't think I'm any happier than my younger brother Andre, who drives a garbage truck.

love-of-my-life brother thinking

Nobody really wants to be a stand-up, they want to get on TV. by Chris Rock

Nobody really wants to be a stand-up, they want to get on TV.

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When you're making a real documentary, you shoot it and the movie happens. You don't make - this sounds corny - you don't make a documentary, a documentary makes you. It really does.

corny real

When you're white, the sky's the limit. When you're black, the li... by Chris Rock

When you're white, the sky's the limit. When you're black, the limit's the sky.

black white sky

I just love New York. New York has energy, it has culture, New York is very diverse. There's not a better place in the world.

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I have four jackets, five pants, whatever, that are all the same. If you see U2 in concert, they wear the same thing every night. They just got a bunch of them. Albert Einstein used to wear brown suits every day. Why waste brainpower on something that is trivial?

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When you become a comedian a lot of stuff that made you laugh before just stops. You stop watching your old cartoons you used to watch. You stop reading the funnies. It's like working at a strip club. You don't come home and turn on the Playboy Channel.

reading home laughing

I like the tradition of the Oscars. I like that some of the greatest comedians ever have hosted the show.

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I pray there's a God...I know there's an Oprah. by Chris Rock

I pray there's a God...I know there's an Oprah.

i-pray praying knows

You know those guys that go to the strip club at the daytime? If you're at a strip club, and the sun is out, you got some problems!

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You want to track Hollywood careers, look in the real estate section. You see a guy buy a house that costs $6 million, and you can literally start counting the days until he starts doing crappy movies.

track careers real

I pride myself on being the guy who can do Def Comedy Jam and Cha... by Chris Rock

I pride myself on being the guy who can do Def Comedy Jam and Charlie Rose. And do well on both.

guy pride rose

It's weird with stand-up comedy. It doesn't really translate worldwide. I want to figure out how do I make it worldwide. Do a special in Africa. Can't beat that. Pull that off, then I will have done something.

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I've been married for 10 years and, you know, it's hard, you spruce it up and you go places. How do you spruce up anything? Artificially. You go places and do things.

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I'm like the Hulk on stage. It's way over the top. That's Bizarro Chris. Sometimes I get off stage and go What did I say?! I'll watch one of my stand-up specials a year later and go Eww, that was mean.

watches mean years

All people naturally hate. My kid bites people now. I didn't teach my kid to bite anybody. Kids say mean stuff. Only through love do we get this evil out of them. Only through love and structure and discipline do they not hate. The kids that hate didn't learn anything, that's the problem.

hate mean kids

I took my AlDS test. You start reflecting... You start thinking about every nasty, skank-ass... It's like the movie Scrooge, and the Ghost of Pussy Past comes.

pussy past thinking

A cat, by any other name, is still a sneaky little furball that b... by Chris Rock

A cat, by any other name, is still a sneaky little furball that barfs on the furniture.

cat names littles

Guys play characters that won't grow up and something catastrophic happens and they have to grow up to save the day - that's pretty much what today's comedy is about.

growing-up play character

I am just here to support the President of the United States. President of the United States is our boss, but he is also... you know, the President and the First Lady are kinda like the Mom and the Dad of the country. And when your Dad says something you listen, and when you don't it will usually bite you on the ass later on. So, I'm here to support the President.

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