Chris Tucker quotes

Chris Tucker is an American actor and comedian, best known for his energetic performances and comedic timing. Famous for his roles in the "Rush Hour" film series and "Friday," his charisma has made him a favorite among audiences worldwide. He continues to appear in movies and stand-up comedy shows. Here are 27 of his quotes:

You got to control your own destiny. You got to keep writin' different stuff. Keep switchin' up and never do the same thing too many times. (Chris Tucker)
Everybody goes through a lot of the same things, and I talk about those, and that's the key. You have to connect with your audience, and I might take them on a trip with me, tell them I went here and I went there and they'll go with me, you know, to hear the stories. View quote
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Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one. View quote
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I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words. View quote
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You don't know who you messing with man, I slap people for fun. That's what I do man! You wanna play rough, huh, I kill for fun! View quote
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You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don't say nothin' 'bout the money. 'Hi, how ya doin'? How's ya mama doing?' Man, how's my money doin'? View quote
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My mom raised me to never have anything control me. View quote
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I think my life is a movie and your life reflects your work. View quote
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I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life. View quote
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When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through. View quote
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I want to keep working, I want to keep doing my humanitarian stuff around the world, shining light on different places that have problems. Keep making movies, make people laugh. (Chris Tucker)
It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside. View quote
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I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie roles you wanna pick. I think if you've got an interesting life, you wanna do interesting movies about interesting things. View quote
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Georgia was a great place to live, but I wanted to get out because I knew the opportunities for what I was doing - stand-up comedy and eventually acting - were in Los Angeles. View quote
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I've got a big closet of scripts, and a big stack of scripts on the side of my desk, because you get a whole bunch. Nothing's going to be perfect, and I realize that; but I am a perfectionist, so you go through a lot of stuff. View quote
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Day-to-day life is a lot of work. I work a lot on stand-up stuff, and then day-to-day life and, you know, just living. It's always different. Try to work out, try to stay in shape, and try to have some fun. View quote
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I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian. View quote
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I couldn't imagine not having clean water. View quote
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I travel. I do a lot of traveling around the world. View quote
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I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down. View quote
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I love traveling. It not only opens my mind up, but it also allows me to use my fame in another way through humanitarian works and stuff, and being an influence around the world. (Chris Tucker)
A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different. View quote
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Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It's a good thing. That's why I want to work. View quote
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I feel like every time I go out, I want to do a good job. I want people to say that he's just as good at stand-up as he is in some of the movies I've seen him in, so I try to do the best every time I go out there. View quote
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I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I've done, I'm going to do a lot of great work in the future. View quote
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Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0
Occupation: American Actor
Born: August 31, 1971
Quotes count: 27
Wikipedia: Chris Tucker

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