Chris Rock Quotes

I've done a great job at being universal in my stand-up, which is why, for 'Let Me Explain,' I toured all over the world. These movies I have coming out - 'Ride Along,' 'Grudge Match,' 'About Last Night,' 'Think Like a Man Too' - are putting me in a position to become universal on an even bigger scale.

It's true that a song or an entertainer isn't really a hit unless he's a hit in America as well as Europe.

Making a film on Mary Kom means that people should be watching it across the globe; it should be that level.

I have fans all around the world.

Right after 'Desperate' sold to China, we were the most watched show around the world at the time. That's really something great to be a part of.

So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries.

Living in the U.K., there is no way to know whether anyone in India likes my music, but I was surprised to see people singing along while I performed in Pune.

Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.

Internationally, I have as large of a fan base - if not larger - than I have domestically.

You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.

We're lucky in that channels like Science, Animal Planet and Discovery are essentially universal in terms of their appeal. If you wake up in Moscow and put on the Science channel, it doesn't feel like an American channel, it feels like their channel.

There is so much cross-pollination between the U.S. and Britain in terms of comedians. British TV comedies work well in the U.S. American stand-ups make it big in Britain.

I'm starting to believe it when someone tells me 'Suits' is popular in another country. We're just acting, but we are reaching so many different kinds of people all over the world.

The power of Playboy is its appeal around the world.

I'm delighted to have been accepted into the U.S.A. with my fishing program after its success in Australia and throughout the U.K., Europe, and Asia.

Indians can identify with the Indian sensibilities, and rather than taking something from foreign films, it is always good to make a movie which has been enjoyed by a certain audience or in a certain part of India and make it available to a larger audience.

We are trying to capture the widest possible audience all around the world. In other words, we are trying to capture the people who are even beyond the gaming population.

Bollywood, no doubt, has a wider acclaim, and it feels top of the world to see people from all around the world dancing to my songs.

The thing with One Direction is they were massive worldwide. They were going from continent to continent, right across America.

I just want to continue to do comedy. Comedy, I'm discovering, is my niche. It's what I'm born to do, so I would love to have my own sitcom one day in the future.

I wouldn't mind having another shot at doing comedy, but I'm not sure that's the way I'd want to go.

For me, the goal wasn't to turn the stand-up special on its head, but to do what I do specifically, and hopefully that reads as something new.

I was a comedian in Russia, and I worked on the cruise ships there. I met a lot of Americans, and they were laughing even though I didn't speak their language.

Oh, Hello. I'm Eugene Mirman, and I'm here to introduce my special. It's called An Evening of Comedy in a Fake Underground Laboratory.

I still want to do a comedy series.