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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.

  Chris Tucker

  Real, Thinking, Interesting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me.

  Chris Tucker

  Stars, Bigs, Interest

  "Chris Tucker wants to 'do something different'". Interview with Miki Turner, www.today.com. August 7, 2007.

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• I've been smokin' ever since I was two.

  Chris Tucker

  Two

  "Fictional character: Smokey". "Friday", www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• That’s the last time I let Wesley Snipes help me out with my taxes!

  Chris Tucker

  Lasts, Helping, Help Me

  "Chris Tucker mocks his financial troubles in comedy act" by Liz Raftery, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2011.

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• What!? You tell people that, I won't get no more black movies?

  Chris Tucker

  People, Black, Black Movie

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• I've actually tried to give Brett Ratner dance lessons, but he thinks he already knows how to.

  Chris Tucker

  Thinking, Giving, Lessons

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• I've been fortunate to work with good directors who understand improvisation and understand the way comedians work. Luke Basan let me do my thing like do what you feel and take the character to another level. Quentin Tarrantino was more of an acting coach. He can teach you beats and then hell say go with it but give this feeling. So I've been fortunate to work with good, seasoned directors.

  Chris Tucker

  Character, Giving, Feelings

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• It was like a family reunion, watching the movie. It's always a good feeling when I can get a screening for my family.

  Chris Tucker

  Family, Feelings, Reunion

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• 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.

  Chris Tucker

  Home, Cutting, Thinking

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• A black President? Now come on y'all, we got Clinton, that's close. He got negro tendencies.

  Chris Tucker

  Black, President, Clinton

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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.

  Chris Tucker

  Opportunity, Acting, Georgia

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• A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different.

  Chris Tucker

  Creative, Directors, Different

  "Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 07, 2007.

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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.

  Chris Tucker

  Golf, People, Three

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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.

  Chris Tucker

  Fun, Work Out, Trying

  "Chris Tucker on Silver Linings Playbook and his intermittent film career". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. December 14, 2012.

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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.

  Chris Tucker

  Perfect, Scripts, Sides

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• So I kept it to myself. Then some of my classmates started to come down to the comedy club, taking a girl out, and they started finding out I was a stand-up comedian.

  Chris Tucker

  Girl, Comedian, Clubs

  "Chris Tucker earns, dreams big". Interview with Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. August 9, 2001.

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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

  Mind, Use, World

  "Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 7, 2007.

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• I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

  Chris Tucker

  Creative, Comedian, Being Funny

  "Chris Tucker wants to 'do something different'". Interview with Miki Turner, www.today.com. August 7, 2007.

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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.

  Chris Tucker

  Thinking, Done, Great Work

  "Chris Tucker wants to 'do something different'". Interview with Miki Turner, www.today.com. August 7, 2007.

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• I couldn't imagine not having clean water.

  Chris Tucker

  Water, Imagine, Clean

  "Comedian Chris Tucker". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. July 7, 2005.

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• 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.

  Chris Tucker

  People, Encounters, Hours

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• I travel. I do a lot of traveling around the world.

  Chris Tucker

  World, Around The World

  "Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 7, 2007.

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• I've lived a little bit and traveled the world and experienced a lot of things that I can play any role, and I think I can get into stuff that people never thought I would ever do because of my experiences and growth as a person.

  Chris Tucker

  Thinking, Play, People

  "Chris Tucker on Silver Linings Playbook and his intermittent film career". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. December 14, 2012.

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• 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.

  Chris Tucker

  Mean, People, Laughing

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• 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.

  Chris Tucker

  Stories, Crowds, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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