Latest Chris Rock Quotes from Interviews

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• People really cared more about women's hair. But nobody takes you seriously with Jheri curls is what we've deduced. If you got an Afro and you go "Fight the power" people will follow you. If you got a Jheri curl, people just laugh.

  Chris Rock

  Fighting, People, Laughing

  Source: film.avclub.com

• When you're making a real documentary, you shoot it and the movie happens. You don't make - this sounds corny - you don't make a documentary, a documentary makes you. It really does.

  Chris Rock

  Real, Corny

  Source: film.avclub.com

• When you become a comedian a lot of stuff that made you laugh before just stops. You stop watching your old cartoons you used to watch. You stop reading the funnies. It's like working at a strip club. You don't come home and turn on the Playboy Channel.

  Chris Rock

  Reading, Home, Laughing

  Source: www.sfgate.com

• I have four jackets, five pants, whatever, that are all the same. If you see U2 in concert, they wear the same thing every night. They just got a bunch of them. Albert Einstein used to wear brown suits every day. Why waste brainpower on something that is trivial?

  Chris Rock

  Night

  Source: www.sfgate.com

• I'm pretty good at getting over people throwing stuff at me. If you've been doing stand up long enough you know how to swing back and get the laughs.

  Chris Rock

  Long, People, Laughing

  Source: www.sfgate.com

• I just love New York. New York has energy, it has culture, New York is very diverse. There's not a better place in the world.

  Chris Rock

  Energy, Culture, World

  Source: thesource.com

• My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. Oh my God, they're $4 million in the hole.

  Chris Rock

  Kids, Debt, Holes

• I've been away from my two daughters at a very important time in their life.'I have missed most of Girl Scout cookie season.Last night Zahra, my youngest called me up and said :"Daddy how come we never sell the most cookies? How come Mrs. Dunn wins every year?"'

  Chris Rock

  Girl, Daughter, Winning

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

• Hollywood's racist. Hollywood is sorority racist. It's like - we like you, Rhonda, but you're not a Kappa.

  Chris Rock

  Awards, Rocks, Hollywood

  "For Better Or Worse, Chris Rock Made The Oscars As Black As He Possibly Could". "All Things Considered" with Eric Deggans, www.npr.org. February 29, 2016.

• Eddie Murphy is to comedians what Nicki Minaj is to Spanx.

  Chris Rock

  Comedian, Spanx, Murphy

  "Eddie Murphy awarded Mark Twain Prize: Here are the parts you might not see on the PBS special" by Peggy McGlone, www.washingtonpost.com. October 19, 2015.

• I mean no disrespect to anything I did before.

  Chris Rock

  Mean, Disrespect

  Source: uk.complex.com

• There's not one reference in that thing that doesn't play. People deal with emotions in music all the time, but comedians are always talking about what they see. But we seldom talk about what we feel.

  Chris Rock

  Talking, Play, People

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

• A comedian has to live in his head. All this comedy comes from a lonely place. When you're surrounded by an entourage, you're not living in your head.

  Chris Rock

  Lonely, Comedian, Comedy

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

• You just got to be really logical when you're a comedian - to a fault. Like a lawyer's got to believe in the law.

  Chris Rock

  Believe, Law, Comedian

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

• So there's a cloud of rage around me, but being an artist kind of changes that. No matter what you thought coming in, what ignorant thing you believed, you're in show business for two years, you're like, "OK, I was wrong." It's hard to be mad at any particular group of people when you're an artist.

  Chris Rock

  Artist, Clouds, Years

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

• No matter what happens or how difficult things become, you will eventually feel better.

  Chris Rock

  Feel Better, Matter, Difficult

  Source: www.oprah.com

• Tomorrow is more sure than just about anything else in the entire world.

  Chris Rock

  World, Tomorrow

  Source: www.oprah.com

• You know you're rich when you have to drive for a half hour to get to your house once you're on your property.

  Chris Rock

  House, Half, Rich

  Source: www.oprah.com

• I can see the humor in just about any situation. After I lost my dad, I realized that none of us should take things too seriously, because everything except death works itself out.

  Chris Rock

  Dad, Lost, Should

  Source: www.oprah.com

• I see guys who can't make 10 percent of what I make, and yet they have four Bentleys, three houses, and four bodyguards.

  Chris Rock

  Guy, House, Four

  Source: www.oprah.com

• If you live below your means, you can turn down stuff all the time.

  Chris Rock

  Mean, Stuff, Turns

  Source: www.oprah.com

• The only plan I have is to not do anything I don't want to do - and to never work just for money.

  Chris Rock

  Want, Plans

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. June 2002.

• That's a sure sign someone is going crazy - when he refers to himself in the third person, talks in low tones, and walks around wearing shades all day!

  Chris Rock

  Crazy, Shade, Tone

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. June 2002.

• When you've been on a ghetto diet your entire life, you're just happy to get a large soda instead of a medium.

  Chris Rock

  Ghetto, Soda, Mediums

  Source: www.oprah.com

• I get approached to do shows all the time. There's a lot of money in sitcoms, but I've never been the kind of guy who wanted to do one. I don't think people want to see me saying "Honey, I'm home." It's just not my thing.

  Chris Rock

  Home, Thinking, People

  Source: www.oprah.com