Tracy Morgan Quotes
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In my heart, I really don't care who you love, same sex or not; as long as you have the ability to love, that's the important thing here.
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Stand-up and comedy is the place where we are supposed to be able to make fun of all of the world's ills.
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As a child, I was able to know that I wanted a better life.
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I like to do stand-up for people who live real life.
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Saturday Night Live' was like a university for funny.
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Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.
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When I was a young kid, my pops introduced me to it. He took me to Harlem, 145th and Edgecombe, to watch the filming of Claudine with James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll. That was my first taste of seeing a set and the cameras, and I was bit by the acting bug at a young age.
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Every person has contributed to me as a human, but a lot of the characters I do are ones I created.
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Stand-up is really personal. It's not like somebody else is writing the script and you have to do what they write.
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I can make people laugh at the drop of a dime. God's given me that ability.
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I deal with my sons like young men. If they have a problem with something, they come to me. I am the type of dad that will drop everything I am doing for them, and always tell them to talk to me about it.
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I can't watch American Idol... it's like karaoke without the booze.
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Having a daughter makes you see things in a different way. This is my only girl. So I don't care what it takes to protect her. You can call it what you want to call it. As long as you treat her the same way I treat her, like my princess, I don't mind.
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I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.
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I love being around people who love to do what I love to do, which is comedy.
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You get somebody to crack a smile, that's a beautiful thing.
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What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts.
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I'm not really much into politics, because it's rarely discussed in my line of work.
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My father was the role model I looked up. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me he was still a rock star.
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My sense of humor was a tool for me getting past my mother and father separating, my older brother having cerebral palsy, and the bullies in the schoolyard. I had to make them laugh to keep them off my ass. I brought that to my professional career.
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I'm not a hateful person and don't condone any kind of violence against others.
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Michael's the ultimate entertainer. After Michael Jackson, it's Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and Bruce Lee.
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Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes.
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And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly.
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Life smacks Tracy Morgan in the face, and I don't mean to talk in third party, but no, it doesn't stop raining when I come outside, no, absolutely not. I'm very in touch.
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I'm very giving. Even if it's for nonsense, I'll give it to you.
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Everything I talk about in stand-up is my experiences as an American, as a father, as a husband, as a black man, as a human being.
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I'm not focused on the outrageousness. I'm just focused on being funny, and raising my kids. I don't even read the newspaper, I don't read that crap.
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I don't do drama. I'm a comedian.
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I don't even deal with politics. I just don't believe in them. I think politics are politricks. My whole thing is power to the people. I don't put my faith in any one man. I keep my faith in God. That's where I keep my faith.
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