Chris Tucker Quotes

I've been doing stand-up since '89.

I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian.

Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.

When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

I realize as I get older that stand-up is a huge part of who I am. I think I'll do it for the rest of my life.

I think I probably would have gone into stand-up.

I don't write anything. It's all done onstage, which is why I always tell younger comics that they just have to go do it. You have to get up, talk, and take a thought or a word and just expound, and you find it in there. I don't sit down and write.

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.

I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere.

Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most.

I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.

I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.

I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.

I adore doing comedy, I think it's fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy.

If I'm not in the theatre, I'm in an open mic night or doing a guest set at the Comedy Club, or whatever, just trying to develop stuff.

I never became a road comic.

I don't know that I'd be a comedian if I stayed in Canada.

I started comedy in 2006. I didn't even think it was a thing I could do.

I have always been a comedian - that has always been my job and it is what I want to do for a long time to come.

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

I'd been doing standup since college.

I've been entertaining men with my comedy for many, many years, and I don't plan on stopping.

I don't do stand-up anymore.

Stand-up comedy is something that you have to strive to do, multiple times a night, every night, to be good.