Tony Rock Quotes

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

I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

I was a class clown; the nuns didn't like that.

Getting a laugh was what I'd been doing with my family and at school since the age of three.

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

Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder

I love films that make you feel something but also deliver that payload behind jokes.

Several of my uncles are comedians. My father is a comedian; my grandfather was known for his jokes. It definitely runs in the family.

As a kid, I was always the jokester. I was telling stories at dinner and trying to make people laugh.

You just tell a good story where you're funny and it makes people laugh.

I think both comedy and dissent are liberating, for the listener as well!

I used to get in trouble a lot in school because I would write very naughty stories and poems in class.

Growing up the way that I did - I grew up with a lot of cousins - you just have this imagination, and I love going and telling different stories. I'm a clown.

You have comedians who just do jokes, and they're called comics, not comedians. You have comedians that do bits - a person that has a lot of jokes that have a beginning, a middle and an end, but it's not a real story. And you have someone that does great stories, the one that blends those things together - that person is doing comedy.

I don't have any writers. I never get a laugh with somebody else's jokes. I can't do it justice.

I have a sense of humor, and sometimes it gets me into trouble.

I never swore when I was young.

Humor was a big part of my childhood. My family was full of comedians. We'd sit around the dinner table and try to one-up each other. It sometimes ended in tears, but usually in laughter.

I curse in everyday life, but usually when I stub my toe. The topics I'm discussing, it's not necessary to curse. I found [cursing] is a sign that a joke is not finished or well-written.

I remember seeing Richard Pryor's first movie; it was a midnight movie when I was in high school. I must have been about fifteen. It was one of the most cathartic experiences of my life. I'd never laughed that much.

I love those people who do story-telling and who ramble on, but I don't do that, I tell jokes - the sort of jokes that anyone really could tell in the pub.

I remember the first joke that I made, which went over terribly. I was at my cousin's birthday party in Brooklyn. I was a little kid and she was a little older. They were going around introducing themselves; I was probably four, and I was very eager to impress all of these older New York kids. They went down the line and were like, "I'm Jake," "I'm Jane," "I'm Silvia," and I said, "I'm hungry," because I thought that was really going to bring the house down.

[Adoption] could turn you into an exquisite comedian. Ask Richard Pryor's ghost.

The first comedians I became fascinated with were the Marx brothers. I couldn't get enough of them. Later in life, I thought, "Well, maybe it's because they were so rebellious and they were just flipping the bird to society and all the rules we're supposed to follow." They were saying that none of it is fair.

We let off a Dungbomb in the corridor and it upset him for some reason—" "So he hauled us off to his office and started threatening us with the usual—" "—detention—" "—disembowelment—