Chris Tucker Quotes

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

I've been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.

Comedy requires a lot of energy.

I still love to walk on stage and make people laugh, and I work very, very hard at it, and I take it seriously.

I started pursuing stand-up comedy in 12th grade.

Comedy is like math - you can check your answer because you know you've gotten it right if you get a laugh. It just makes sense to me. I feel like because I've had to keep that tool in my box for so long, I'm ready to show it off a bit.

Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it's my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.

I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.

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

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

I always knew I wanted to do comedy. I like making people laugh.

I wanted to be a comedian.

Most comics worship music on some level. It's more rock-n-roll to get up there for an hour and make people laugh.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period.

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.

I actually love doing comedy!

I live for comedy. I've been doing it for such a long time. Comedy is hard in itself.