Top 100 Tracy Morgan Quotes

#1. My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman.

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#2. I know my spirit is not mean, and I have a very good spirit and a funny spirit.

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#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.

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#4. Most creative thing I've ever done? Got somebody pregnant.

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#5. I don't do drama. I'm a comedian.

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

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#7. 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.

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#8. Whatever I did on 'Saturday Night Live' is going to stay and remain on 'Saturday Night Live.'

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#9. What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts.

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#10. 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.

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#11. I had a great time working on 'Saturday Night Live.' It was one of the important times in my life.

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#12. My voice is very distinct. People hear Tracy Morgan's voice, and they know Tracy Morgan right off the bat because I've been in their homes for so many years.

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#13. I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working.

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

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#15. All women like to look up to their men.

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#16. If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.

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#17. I do comedy for real people.

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

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#19. Martin Lawrence is one of my comedic heroes, and he's a genius.

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#20. If you're the kind of person who likes numbers and statistics, I'm the long shot - the Lotto Powerball winner. I'm the mutation in the DNA that makes evolution a reality. I am the new black.

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

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#22. There's nothing in the world like live entertainment. With TV, you have to wait for your results; with live entertainment, people let you know right then and there. That relationship is established in 30 seconds. The first 30 seconds, they'll let you know whether they like you or not.

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#23. 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.

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#24. 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.

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#25. What am I afraid of? The IRS. That's it. I don't want those people knockin' on my door, man.

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

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#27. I don't see myself as angry, although other people see that. I just see myself as a short, dumpy guy with bad feet, and I'm passionate.

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#28. I was like any other inner-city kid with a chip on his shoulder because his daddy and his mommy wasn't together.

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#29. Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.

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#30. I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.

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#31. They say that every Jewish person is supposed to love one black person in his life. I'm glad Lorne Michaels chose me.

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#32. I'm human, I feel, I understand. That's the highest level of love, is understanding - when you can understand someone, when you can love them with their flaws and their faults. So I understand, I consider. I may speak the truth, but I'll consider your feelings, too.

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#33. Comedians are the monkeys of acting. When you go to the zoo, everybody loves the monkey exhibit.

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#34. 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.

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#35. Growing up in the ghetto is pretty hard. It's poverty; it's frustration.

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#36. I'm a human being. I feel all emotions. I'm not just happy all the time. Sometimes, I'm sad and feel the blues. Sometimes I even want to feel the blues. Sometimes, you want to feel down.

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#37. 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.

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#38. You get somebody to crack a smile, that's a beautiful thing.

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#39. 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.

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#40. 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.

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#41. 'Saturday Night Live' is live television. Nothing can compare to that.

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#42. If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people.

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#43. If you can get your life down to one minute at a time, you don't miss anything. You have total abundance of information and material.

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#44. I'm art. You're art. We are God's greatest works, simple as that.

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#45. 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.

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#46. We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.

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#47. Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.

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#48. Tracy Morgan is subdued. I'm cool. I'm chilled out.

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#49. The version of me you see on TV now and in my feature films is a pretty happy guy, isn't he?

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

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

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#52. Most people don't know what's happening around them because they're just speeding through life. And before they know it, they're just old. So I just try to slow it down.

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#53. You will be surprised but I do a lot of studying and I watch National Geographic.

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#54. I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.

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#55. People are just way too sensitive. You couldn't have a show like 'Archie Bunker' on TV. People would go crazy; they would lose their minds.

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#56. 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.

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#57. If I make fun of somebody at my show, believe me, it's something we can all laugh at.

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#58. If we all had a little bit of Michael Jackson in us, I think it would make the world a better place.

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

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

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

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#62. Life smacks Tracy Morgan in the face, and I don't mean to talk in third party, but no, it doesn't stop raining when I come outside, no, absolutely not. I'm very in touch.

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

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

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#65. 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.

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#66. When I want to work on my material, I go to Benihana or the barbershop.

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#67. I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.

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#68. I don't have anything against Jimmy Fallon. I love Jimmy Fallon. He's my dude.

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#69. We need to learn to laugh at ourselves because when you don't laugh, you cry. And I don't feel like crying.

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#70. 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.

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#71. You can't hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I'm just a comedian. My job is like Archie Bunker.

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#72. What you have to understand is that my thing is not glamour. I love stretch marks and C-section scars and all of that. I'm a grown man. You don't gotta put on no makeup with me.

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#73. I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night.

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

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#75. Michael's the ultimate entertainer. After Michael Jackson, it's Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and Bruce Lee.

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

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#77. Stand-up is my foundation. That's where it started at. And I love it because it's personal. It's mine. It's all me. It's my experience in life.

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#78. Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.

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#79. My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

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

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

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#82. 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.

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#83. You have to give a wound time to heal and think of other people's feelings.

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#84. If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?

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

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#86. Where I came from, people couldn't afford to go to the theatre.

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#87. 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.

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

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#89. I do my best creating on stage.

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

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#91. I remember when I was on 'Saturday Night Live' my first year, and I wasn't getting much. I was down; I was ready to quit.

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

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#93. My fans would love to see Brian Fellow come back. I love my fans. And they like my edge.

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#94. God gave us dreams, but he gave us kids to make all those dreams worthwhile. And when I look at all my kids, I say everything that I've ever went through in my life was worthwhile.

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

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#96. I'm not perfect, but I strive for it.

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#97. White women love me 'cause of my edge. And I love white women.

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#98. 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.

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#99. 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.

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#100. Parents should support and love their kids no matter what.

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