45 Quotes by Chris Tucker
Chris Tucker is a talented comedian and actor known for his infectious energy and charismatic presence on the screen. Rising to prominence with his breakout role as Detective James Carter in the "Rush Hour" film series, Tucker's impeccable comedic timing and dynamic performances made him an instant fan favorite. His ability to blend physical comedy with witty dialogue earned him recognition as one of the funniest and most bankable comedians of his time.
Beyond his comedic roles, Tucker has showcased his acting range in more dramatic films, displaying depth and vulnerability in his characters. While his filmography is impressive, Tucker's career also includes stand-up comedy specials that further solidify his status as a gifted performer. Despite being a popular celebrity, he has kept a relatively private personal life, allowing his work to speak for itself. Chris Tucker's contributions to comedy and entertainment have left a lasting impact on the industry, and his signature humor continues to be cherished by audiences worldwide.
Chris Tucker Quotes
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.
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'?
Just believe in yourself and work really hard. And when doors open, take advantage of every opportunity you can.
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.
I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.
One thing about me, when I make a decision about something, I realize when you make choices in life, that dictates your life.
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.
My mom raised me to never have anything control me.
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.
I told a joke and people laughed and it was the best feeling. I knew I wanted to do this as a career. I never knew I could get such a high from telling a joke. There's something so extraordinary about having people listening to you and hanging onto your words - it's a great feeling.
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.
I am now half Asian. I have learned all the ancient teachings of Buddi.
You see people waving. You dont see people having problems, with each other at least.
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.
A lot of lines in movies were written, but I'm always improvising. Once you get into the scene, it just comes to me.
I think my life is a movie and your life reflects your work.
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!
I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.
What!? You tell people that, I won't get no more black movies?
I've actually tried to give Brett Ratner dance lessons, but he thinks he already knows how to.
I couldn't imagine not having clean water.
I couldn't tell people what I wanted to do because I was from Atlanta. You don't tell people you're gonna be a comedian in Atlanta. That means you ain't gonna do nothing.
It's crazy because people expect you to be funny all the time and every day is not a funny day. I go to funerals and people are like 'tell a joke' and 'say one of your lines in a movie.' It's a funeral, man!
I get on stage and talk about different stuff in my life and what I've been through and what I think about the world. It's picking out highlights of things and how I became who I am and how my daddy raised me.
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.
Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me.
I've been smokin' ever since I was two.
That’s the last time I let Wesley Snipes help me out with my taxes!
It was like a family reunion, watching the movie. It's always a good feeling when I can get a screening for my family.
A black President? Now come on y'all, we got Clinton, that's close. He got negro tendencies.
I love to talk about people I've met being an entertainer. All my encounters in life - I roll it all into an hour and 30 minutes.
I want to do movies that mean something, that make people laugh and cry great movies, period-piece movies and work with the best people out there, who bring the best out of me.
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.
I like LA. LA is cool, but it ain't like home. Atlanta is home. All my friends are here, I grew up here. But LA is cool. Its more like a big office. Its work and you work, and you're meetin' people all the time, but its more like acquaintances than friends and stuff.I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.
A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different.
In stand-up you can go either way. It's live. Somebody might say something in the crowd, you might respond to it. But in a movie you could be spontaneous too. But you pretty much have to stick to that story or that scene or that script, but in stand-up you can go wherever you want to. It's more freedom.
I reenact everything. I love to paint a picture for my audience. I'm a lot like Richard Pryor in that aspect. I do a lot of acting on stage, acting out and visualizing stuff. I love to do that. I'm into it so much, it just comes out of me.
I think you've got to have a depth, a deeper depth to take stand-up into acting, but I think it really helps you as a stand-up to home into different characters and stuff easily.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.
― Chris Tucker Quotes
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