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Everything's funny - in the right context and done by the right person.

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Chris Rock
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 7
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By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer.
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Black comics, they only watch Black comedians. You're a comedian you're not just a Black comedian. You're a comedian. I try to get that through to everybody.
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You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it's your last. Bullshit. Life is long. You're probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you're gonna have to live with the choices you make for the next fifty years.
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Stand-up comedy is like the lowest medium in all of show business in levels of respect.
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An entertainer's reputation as a live act is the most valuable thing he or she can have. If people know you give good shows, you'll never be broke for the rest of your life.
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It's easier to get on show business, the hard part is to maintain. Nobody stays famous forever.
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You can't fake comedy - it's not like a movie, where a director can just cast a pretty face.
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In the world of animation, you can be anything you wanna be. If you're a fat woman, you can play a skinny princess. If you're short wimpy guy, you can play a tall gladiator. If you're a white man, you can play an Arabian prince. And if you're a black man, you can play a donkey or a zebra.
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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.
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My first year on 'SNL', I made $90,000 dollars.
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I can't cook, but I have a nice book of menus... and I can plate and set the table.
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The key to staying together is making sure you guys like each other and need each other.
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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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Not a Harvard-type education, just a not-sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education.
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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.
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Yeah, it's unfair that you can get judged by something you didn't do, but it's also unfair that you can inherit money that you didn't work for.
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When I do something good, the audience lets me know immediately. They laugh. That's it.
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People are always going to, you know, find something wrong with people who are not the exact same as them. That's just what it is. Black, white, short, tall, religions, whatever. People are bad.
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My dad worked every day. I didn't get into show business to work every day. So the fact that most days I get to like, spend really good time with my kids - that's what success is to me.
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I met so many people after I got rich and famous, and I learned that you can't ultimately trust people unless they were your friends when you were broke.
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