Chris Tucker famous quotes

06-13-2025

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
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.
-- Chris Tucker

#Home #Character #Thinking
I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.
-- Chris Tucker

#Careers #Acting
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
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
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
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
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.
-- Chris Tucker

#Acting #Stuff #Paint
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
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
You see people waving. You dont see people having problems, with each other at least.
-- Chris Tucker

#People #Problem
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
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 #People #Laughing
I couldn't imagine not having clean water.
-- Chris Tucker

#Water #Imagine #Clean Water
I think my life is a movie and your life reflects your work.
-- Chris Tucker

#Thinking #Life Is
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
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
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
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 #Littles #Stuff
Thatâ€™s the last time I let Wesley Snipes help me out with my taxes!
-- Chris Tucker

#Lasts #Helping #Help Me
My mom raised me to never have anything control me.
-- Chris Tucker

#Mom #My Mom #Raised
I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.
-- Chris Tucker

#Creative #Comedian #Be Creative
A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different.
-- Chris Tucker

#Creative #Directors #Different
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
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
I travel. I do a lot of traveling around the world.
-- Chris Tucker

#World #Around The World

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