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Eddie [Murphy] is an icon. He's one of the reason why I started doing comedy in the beginning. He opened a lot of doors for black people.
Tracy Morgan
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Tracy Morgan
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: November 10
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Tracy Jamal Morgan
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I don't like doing stand-up for little kids. It's not geared for that.
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I like to do stand-up for people who live real life.
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Too many people focus on the thing, instead of the heavenly glory of it. I don't want to give away what to expect.
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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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As a child, I was able to know that I wanted a better life.
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I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working.
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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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I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.
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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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I love 30 Rock because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week.
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Bones heal, but the loss of my friend will never heal.
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Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken nuggets.
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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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A stand-up's job is to hold the mirror up to society and to look at what we're afraid of. That's why we had shows like 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons.' We made fun of ourselves then.
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Because Eddie [Murphy] came from where I come from, the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. People in the projects used to call me Fat Murphy.
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I don't really take the college tours and all that. Those are young people and I'm quite sure they're mature enough to understand, but they haven't seen or lived real life yet.
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I'm not really struggling about my career. The struggles are in my personal life. I can't really pinpoint how long it took me to get where I'm at, and I didn't care how long it was going to take, because it's not about the destination, it's about the journey.
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My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of The Color Purple. It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same.
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The things I did on Saturday Night Live are going to stay as Saturday Night Live. You've never seen Eddie Murphy do a Gumby movie. There's a lot more new material inside of me.
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Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a person's whole life.
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