Chris Rock quotes
Born: 7 Feb 1966
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Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?
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The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying for their hair. When you're in a beauty parlor in Harlem next to abandoned buildings and somebody's paying five grand for a weave, that's a bit much.
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I've seen women who don't have great relationships with their dads, and it all comes down to this: You have to tell girls you love them every day.
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Kids always act up the most before they go to sleep.
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Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.
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Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.
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I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.
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When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they're crazy, because 'sacrifice' infers that there was something better to do than being with your children.
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Now that I have children, I realize taking care of my children is more fun than anything in the whole world.
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President of the United States is you know, our boss, so you know, the President and the First Lady are kinda like the Mom and the Dad of the country. And when your Dad says something you listen.
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Anything I say about women, I try to make sure that at least five or six friends of mine are going through a similar situation. That way I'm not picking on my wife.
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You can write a great country record and still be angry. Who's angrier than Toby Keith? He's angrier than the average 10 rappers.
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My goal in life was to host the MTV Awards, because it's the awards show that Prince sang on, and that was the awards show that Eddie Murphy hosted and Arsenio hosted.
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I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.
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Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.
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I think my best work is when I'm kind of in charge.
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After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.
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There's some downsides to being famous, which are not even worth mentioning. But to combat the bad sides of being famous, you really should take advantage of the good sides. The good sides are, you can use that fame to get projects you might not normally get.
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If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty.
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A man is only as faithful as his options.
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Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.
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You can only offend me if you mean something to me.
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Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders.
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I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.
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I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird.
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There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.
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