Chris Tucker Quotes

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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.

  Chris Tucker

  Healing, People, Giving

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

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• Just believe in yourself and work really hard. And when doors open, take advantage of every opportunity you can.

  Chris Tucker

  Believe, Opportunity, Doors

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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'?

  Chris Tucker

  Money, Men, Mama

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• One thing about me, when I make a decision about something, I realize when you make choices in life, that dictates your life.

  Chris Tucker

  Choices, Decision, Realizing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My mom raised me to never have anything control me.

  Chris Tucker

  Mom, My Mom, Raised

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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.

  Chris Tucker

  Jobs, People, 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 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.

  Chris Tucker

  Careers, People, Feelings

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• I think my life is a movie and your life reflects your work.

  Chris Tucker

  Thinking, Life Is

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

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• You got to control your own destiny. You got to keep writin different stuff. Keep switchin up and never do the same thin too many times.

  Chris Tucker

  Destiny, Different, Stuff

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• I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

  Chris Tucker

  Careers, Acting, Ifs

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

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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.

  Chris Tucker

  Black, Good Movie, Want

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

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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

  Light, Laughing, People

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

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• 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.

  Chris Tucker

  Keys, Stories, Might

  "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 am Jewish. My real name is Chris Tuckenberg. A lot of people don't know about that.

  Chris Tucker

  Real, Names, People

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

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• 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!

  Chris Tucker

  Crazy, Men, People

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• You see people waving. You dont see people having problems, with each other at least.

  Chris Tucker

  People, Problem

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• 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.

  Chris Tucker

  Real, Stuff I Like, Littles

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• I am now half Asian. I have learned all the ancient teachings of Buddi.

  Chris Tucker

  Teaching, Asian, Half

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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.

  Chris Tucker

  Hurt, Character, London

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• 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.

  Chris Tucker

  Thinking, Who I Am, Daddy

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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!

  Chris Tucker

  Fun, Men, Play

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• A lot of lines in movies were written, but I'm always improvising. Once you get into the scene, it just comes to me.

  Chris Tucker

  Lines, Scene, Improvising

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• 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.

  Chris Tucker

  Mean, Atlanta, People

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

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• I believe that I'm going to have a long career, as long as I want, and I think by me going out into the world living a little bit made me... gave me more depth, so when I do go, going into movies is much easier for me.

  Chris Tucker

  Believe, Thinking, Careers

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

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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.

  Chris Tucker

  Cutting, Thinking, Cuss Words

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