Chris Rock Quotes

My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.

I always wanted to be on a sitcom.

I loved doing the 'King of Queens', I have never had so much fun doing a show. People got to see a different side of me.

I would love to have my own show, and whatever movies come up, that would be fun to do too. But I love TV, and I love the art of the half-hour sitcom.

I love doing comedy. I did comedy for seven years on 'The King of Queens.'

I had the most fun on '3rd Rock'. It was a great show to work on.

I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.

I would never turn down a movie, but at the same time, but my ideal job would be a half-hour sitcom.

My first real showbiz job was on a Nickelodeon show called 'Hey, Dude.' That was my first real paid scriptwriting job.

I've been very busy working on the ABC Family sitcom, 'Baby Daddy.'

Working with people like Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis is such a blessing because I've watched them a great deal. I grew up with 'Friends' and always aspired to work with someone from that cast. Jason is just such an amazing comedian.

'True Detective' did change my career.

Getting to be the 'weird roommate' on a sitcom was a dream come true.

I have two trifling ambitions in the theater: to make a lot of people laugh and to make a lot of money.

It always makes me laugh to think that I get to sit around and chat with people like Anne Reid and Derek Jacobi and get paid for it.

I am an entertainer.

One thing I won't do in television is a sitcom. I find that world to be so neurotic and bizarre.

I wanna do some more goofy comedy stuff; I really enjoyed doing 'A Touch of Cloth.'

I love 'AP Bio' - I think it's so funny - it's just not the show I want to do.

I'd love to entertain people forever.

A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.

I grew up on M*A*S*H and All In The Family and Cheers. And then around this time, this would have been '95, '96, I was so into Friends and Mad About You, the idea of being on a sitcom became a very real thing that I wanted. It was not so much a relief. It was really exciting. It's an amazing thing to be in front of an audience.

I think comedy is difficult, and I'm amazed so many people want to do it. I'll be buying jeans and somebody will say, "I'm a comedian" - the guy selling you the jeans. The desire to be a comedian is weird. I found it weird myself to want to be one; I was a schoolboy when I wanted to be one but I didn't know how to do it. That was 50 years ago, so times have changed greatly. There seems to be a long line of people desperate to do it and most of them are quite good.

The whole acting and Hollywood [thing], it's just work to me. Stand-up comedy ruins you so badly for doing television. I don't really need to be known anymore than I am. The slight sliver of fame I do have is hard to deal with. If I was actually well-known - I don't even know what to say to people who are at my show when I walk into the venue, much less having waitresses in diners asking for my autograph.

I was always sort of a ham as a kid, just always wanting to entertain and to get people to laugh.