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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.

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Tracy Morgan
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: November 10
Actor
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The Bronx
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Tracy Jamal Morgan
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Listen, Bruce Lee fought out of anger. That’s why they call it the Fists of Fury. Michael Jackson danced with fury. I do stand up out of fury. I’m not mad at anybody. I’m not mad at any human being because I’m a human being.
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My father was the role model I looked up to. 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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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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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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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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I would love to try action films.
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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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I love Ice Cube and Charlie Day. They're brilliant men, great actors and very funny people.
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If you don't laugh, you're going to cry and people are crying. That's why I guess you have lots of people like comedians to keep us laughing.
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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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If we all had a little bit of Michael Jackson in us, I think it would make the world a better place.
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