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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.
Tracy Morgan
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Tracy Morgan
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: November 10
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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 give [Barack Obama] a 10 [on a scale of 1 to 10] because he's not God, and he inherited a couple of wars, and a financial mess.I want to see him curse somebody out on TV. You can't finesse a bull. He's gotta throw down. He's in the shark tank.
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I'm not a hateful person and don't condone any kind of violence against others.
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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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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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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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Live every week like it's shark week.
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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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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 do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.
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I like to do stand-up for people who live real life.
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If you can survive 'Saturday Night Live,' then you're good as far as show business is concerned.
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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 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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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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I don't like doing stand-up for little kids. It's not geared for that.
Tracy Morgan
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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Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes.
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When a child is born, it's born with a heart of gold, but the way of this world can turn that heart cold. I'm still a good person, and I thank God for that - He's working with me on it.
Tracy Morgan
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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