Live every week like it's shark week. Tracy Morgan More Quotes by Tracy Morgan More Quotes From Tracy Morgan I can make people laugh at the drop of a dime. God's given me that ability. Tracy Morgan dimes laughing people I'm not afraid to move away from funny. I'm not afraid of that. Tracy Morgan not-afraid moving 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. Tracy Morgan views war sex 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. Tracy Morgan real college people I like to do stand-up for people who live real life. Tracy Morgan real-life real people 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. Tracy Morgan men believe thinking When I'm in the mood to listen to music, I do like to go to the SkyBar [ L.A.]. Tracy Morgan listening-to-music mood 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. Tracy Morgan saturday materials night 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. Tracy Morgan genre-is inspiration boys 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. Tracy Morgan careers journey struggle 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. Tracy Morgan sharks couple war 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. Tracy Morgan grandchildren stars long 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. Tracy Morgan crap newspapers kids I'm not really much into politics, because it's rarely discussed in my line of work. Tracy Morgan lines Stand-up is really personal. It's not like somebody else is writing the script and you have to do what they write. Tracy Morgan scripts writing 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. Tracy Morgan brother mother father Stand-up and comedy is the place where we are supposed to be able to make fun of all of the world's ills. Tracy Morgan able fun world 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. Tracy Morgan dad stars father 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. Tracy Morgan pieces boundaries want 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. Tracy Morgan acting age kids
