Chris Tucker Quotes

There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words.

People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.

My mother won't tolerate any four-letter words.

I'm always fighting with profanity and Christian comedy. I'm telling you, it's always a fight. Because my father said to me, he said, 'Well, Kym, I feel like comics and people that use profanity, you have a lack of vocabulary, actually, a whole lot.'

Are you ready to have your mind blown? Sometimes Ron Howard uses swear words.

I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious.

I'm about being funny. If I can make a joke using profanity, I will. But for the most part, that can get awfully old and boring.

I've always been criticised for how filthy my material is. Victoria Wood said to me once, 'I wish I was a bit ruder, like you,' and I said, 'Well, I wish I was a bit cleaner, like you.'

I don't curse when I talk. Unless I'm mad.

I thought I'd miss cursing, but I actually don't. I still feel like I can get my point across without real harsh language.

We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

I'm not one for blaspheming, but that one made me laugh.

I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother.

The biggest problem of all is that it's very difficult to tell my daughter, 'Swearing is not clever or funny,' because I earn a living by swearing.

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

It was a JOB; the video show was a JOB; you don't tell the Aristocrats joke at 8 o'clock at night on network tv, it would be funny though. But those guys know I like dirty stuff, I like clean stuff too.

I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak.

No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.

Some comedians tell nice jokes that you can tell to your kids. Some use bad words - they work 'blue.' If you don't want to hear a joke that's blue, you shouldn't go to a comedy club where a comedian who makes blue jokes is performing.

Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.

I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but... I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, 'Why have we gone there?' It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap. It's so easy.

I have quite a foul mouth.

I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.

But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.

I find a lot of swearing in films. And I guess that shows my age. But I also feel that where they say those words, they could just as easily have written other words.