My first year on 'SNL', I made $90,000 dollars. Chris Rock More Quotes by Chris Rock More Quotes From Chris Rock When I do something good, the audience lets me know immediately. They laugh. That's it. Chris Rock audiencelet-melaughing When you make comedy, you make it for the people and you try to have as many screenings and as many tests and you do focus groups and you read the cards and you try to give the people what they want in this comedy. Chris Rock focusgivingpeople When you make drama you are like Picasso. Drama is whatever you want it to be. Chris Rock wantdrama It used to take years to become a junkie. But crack cut that down to 37 minutes. Chris Rock cuttingworldyears Artistically I'm curious. But in life? No. I can go to a restaurant and order the same thing for 10 years. Chris Rock curiousorderyears We Americans commercialize everything. Look at what we did to Christmas. Christmas is Jesus' birthday. Now, I don't know Jesus, but from what I read he was the least materialistic person who ever walked the earth. No bling on Jesus. He kept a low profile and we turned his birthday into the most commercial day of the year. In fact we have a whole Jesus birthday season. And then at the end of it, we have the nerve to have an economist come on TV and say what a horrible Jesus birthday season we had. Chris Rock nervesyearsjesus When people try to read between the lines - critics, they have a job. Their job is to make something bigger than it is. Chris Rock tryingjobspeople Kids always act up the most before they go to sleep. Chris Rock going-to-sleepsleepkids I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack. Chris Rock overratedhacks America is the greatest country in the whole world. Chris Rock countryamericaworld I had always been - everybody kind of likes comedy. I was very interested in comedy, beyond just liking it. I had friends that took apart radios; I wanted to take apart jokes. Chris Rock comedyradiolikes Standup comedians are attracted to one another because of their faults. So we're all kind of messed up in the same way, and once I was around a group of people that saw the world in a different way, it's like this is where I need to be. Chris Rock comediangroupspeople Black comics, they only watch Black comedians. You're a comedian; you're not just a Black comedian. You're a comedian. I try to get that through to everybody. Chris Rock comedianblacktrying When you're doing a big-budget movie and you're four on the call sheet, you've got a lot of free time. Chris Rock sheetsfourbigs I think it's better to have ideas. Chris Rock ideasthinking See, the Black man gotta fly to get to something the white man can walk to. Chris Rock blackwhitemen Black History Month is in the shortest month of the year, and the coldest-just in case we want to have a parade Chris Rock black-historywantyears There's a difference between racism and "I don't know any better. I'm clueless." Racism is like, "I'm trying to make you feel bad." That's racism. Chris Rock cluelessdifferencesracism Does having a wife and kids change your act? Yes, but only in the best way. It gives you weight and authority. It also makes you closer to the audience because the audience is married and has kids. Chris Rock wifegivingkids There are a lot of good comics, no doubt, but as far as the quality of the comics goes, I think what you have is a bunch of situational comics - there are black comics that work only black crowds, gay comics that do only gay crowds, and southern comics that only work down South, and so on with Asian, Latino, Indian, midgets, etc. The previous generation's comics were better because they had to make everybody laugh. Chris Rock gaylaughingthinking
