Chris Rock Quotes

I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn't spell it.

I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.

I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.

Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.

I only went to school up until the beginning of tenth grade and I think that's when my style was developing.

And for those of you that dropped out of high school, remember the famous phrase: 'Do you want fries with that?'

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

Not necessarily in the beginning, thinking I would have a career in comedy, but I was always interested in making people laugh.

Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!

If it wasn't for the music bein' my outlet, I'd probably be hustlin', I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to go and get a nine-to-five, I never finished high school or none of that.

I think we can rule out 'mixed brain dominance' as a cause of your poor performance at school, Charlie Brown" "Have you ruled out stupidity?" "Peanuts", Charles M

I always knew I wanted to do comedy. I like making people laugh. I started out young just making my family laugh and trying to make kids laugh in school and getting into plays. I think it's the only thing I know how to do so hopefully it works out.

I always appreciated my teachers. When I was 16, I gave them the greatest gift I could think of. I dropped out of school.

If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.

I remember one review of The Office Christmas Special that compared it unfavourably to Dickens. What? You're saying I'm not as good as the greatest storyteller ever. Boo! Boo! I think I can live with that.

I've stuck to the same things for twenty years. I try to look like a slightly edgy geography teacher. Like what a geography teacher looked like when I was in school. Cords, sensible shoes and glasses. I never liked geography much as a subject though. In fact the only geography teacher I can remember from school was a woman who had a moustache.

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.

I think evil is our collective shadow. Each one of us has a tendency for the diabolical. If I put you in inhumane conditions, if you're not educated, if you're extremely poor, if you're humiliated, then as a child if you suffer abuse, then you will manifest even when you grow up.

Most comedians weren't great athletes; that was the way they got noticed in high school.

I sometimes think Adam and Eve were Russians. They didn't have a roof over their head, nothing to wear, but they had one apple between them and they thought that was Paradise.

I snorted "oh, beauty. What's that good for?" Mary stared, her eyes round. "It won you the prince, did it not?" I snorted again, I prefer to think that he was captivated by my charming personality." I giggled to let Mary know I was trying to make fun of myself.

Because students leave school without financial skills, millions of educated people pursue their profession successfully, but later find themselves, struggling financially.

Well...you're a martyr and I'm a patron saint-I can't think of anyone better!

I just always loved comedy and I really wanted to be good at it. And it was heartbreaking, 'cause I started and I wasn't good at it. I was only 17-years-old, so I had a lot to learn about life in general. But I just kept on trying. I was young enough and stupid enough and I had no other choice. I had nothing else I was good at.

I have no illusions about my looks. I think my face is funny.