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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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Tracy Morgan
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: November 10
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The Bronx
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Tracy Jamal Morgan
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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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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'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night.
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I'm not a hateful person and don't condone any kind of violence against others.
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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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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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Young stand-ups, we ought to do comedy in George Carlin's spirit, in Richard Pryor's spirit, in Jackie Gleason's spirit, in Lucille Ball's spirit, because they did it with the spirit.
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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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I love being around people who love to do what I love to do, which is comedy.
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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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Live every week like it's shark week.
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Outside of show business, I live a normal life.
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Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations a way to survive another day.
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Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.
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And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly.
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What am I afraid of? The IRS. Thats it. I dont want those people knockin on my door, man.
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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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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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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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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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