Quotes by Chris Tucker

About Chris Tucker:

Christopher is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He is known for playing the role of Smokey in Friday and as Detective James Carter in the Rush Hour film series. Tucker became a frequent stand up performer on Def Comedy Jam in the 1990s. He has also appeared in Luc Besson's The Fifth Element, for which he received acclaim.[citation needed]
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I feel like every time I go out, I want to do a good job. I want people to say that he's just as good at stand-up as he is in some of the movies I've seen him in, so I try to do the best every time I go out there.

Chris Tucker

This country is just that great that the opportunities are there for a Hispanic president, a black president or any other race for a president, yes.

Chris Tucker

Georgia was a great place to live, but I wanted to get out because I knew the opportunities for what I was doing - stand-up comedy and eventually acting - were in Los Angeles.

Chris Tucker

Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It's a good thing. That's why I want to work.

Chris Tucker

When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

Chris Tucker

I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I've done, I'm going to do a lot of great work in the future.

Chris Tucker

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

Chris Tucker

It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.

Chris Tucker

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

Chris Tucker

I think my life is a movie and your life reflects your work.

Chris Tucker

Day-to-day life is a lot of work. I work a lot on stand-up stuff, and then day-to-day life and, you know, just living. It's always different. Try to work out, try to stay in shape, and try to have some fun.

Chris Tucker

I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie roles you wanna pick. I think if you've got an interesting life, you wanna do interesting movies about interesting things.

Chris Tucker

I love traveling. It not only opens my mind up, but it also allows me to use my fame in another way through humanitarian works and stuff, and being an influence around the world.

Chris Tucker

You don't know who you messing with man, I slap people for fun. That's what I do man! You wanna play rough, huh, I kill for fun!

Chris Tucker

I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.

Chris Tucker

I do a lot of traveling around the world.

Chris Tucker

A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different.

Chris Tucker

I couldn't imagine not having clean water.

Chris Tucker

You know, we're missing so much as African-Americans and we should be concerned about what's going on in Africa.

Chris Tucker

Everybody goes through a lot of the same things, and I talk about those, and that's the key. You have to connect with your audience, and I might take them on a trip with me, tell them I went here and I went there and they'll go with me, you know, to ...

Chris Tucker

Author Bio

  • NameChris Tucker
  • DescriptionAmerican comedian
  • BornAugust 31, 1971
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Comedian