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I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.
Chris Tucker
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Chris Tucker
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 31
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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.
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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.
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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.
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