Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I hate when rappers do interviews. They say stuff like, 'If I wasn't doing this, I'd be dead or in jail.' Like, damn, those are the only two options? What about managing Kinkos? "

Related Quotes:

" I've always been into stand-up, and I always wanted to be a comic because it was like the dream job as a kid, and my brother, being the patriarch, he paved the way. "

Tony Rock

Brother

Way

Kid

" If my sisters like something I do, then I'm very happy with it. I only listen to my sisters! "

Tony Rock

Listen

Happy

" Trouble was almost inevitable. I grew up with so many at-risk kids. Kids had things go wrong. "

" If I modeled myself after anybody, it probably would have been Richard Pryor. "

" When I was growing up, I was really into comedy. I listened to a lot of comedy albums. I loved Richard Pryor, but the comic that had the most impact on me was always my brother Chris, who was in the next room. It was tangible. If Chris could make it, I could try. "

" My family is just naturally funny. "

" Who's been loyal to a Kardashain? "

Tony Rock

Been

Loyal

" It's too expensive to eat healthy. You ever go to Whole Foods? A carrot is, like, seven dollars. McDonald's got double cheeseburgers for a dollar. "

Tony Rock

You

Eat

" I was depressed for a long time. "

" Every time I go onstage, it's a little less 'Chris Rock's brother.' "

" You know why kids don't eat fruits? Because fruits don't have any mascots. Every sugary cereal has a bear or a rabbit going , 'Kid! Eat it! Eat it, eat it, eat it!' You're a kid, you're like, 'I got to get that cereal.' "

" I love to eat. I'm a foodie, and when I'm on vacation, I want to be a foodie with their culture, with their foods. "

" Everybody cheats on the Kardashians. "

Tony Rock

Everybody

Cheats

" I keep saying this - and I keep putting it off because I get busy - but I keep saying one year I'm gonna tape our Thanksgiving dinner or, like, our Christmas dinner and maybe put it on my website just for people to see how funny it really is, how much fun it really, really is. "

" I have seven brothers and sisters, and they could all be standup comics! "

" I haven't been offstage for more than two days since I started doing comedy. "

Tony Rock

Doing

Started

" I was on the school bus telling Richard Pryor jokes. I was sneaking, listening to Richard Pryor albums and would go to school the next day, tell all the jokes, and get in trouble because I was cursing. "

" I went to a wedding in St. Maarten, and we took a boat ride over to Anguilla for a day. We went to a beach that had the whitest sand I had ever seen before in my life. I was in the water up to the middle of my chest and could still see my feet. It was the clearest water. "

" Nothing's given in the Rock family. "

" I talk to the audience like I talk to my friends on the stoop. "

" You can live with diabetes. It's not the worst thing to have, but you have to manage yourself and have some self control. "

" It's part of the gift and the curse of coming behind my brother. I'm not afforded the luxury of just taking a set casual, taking the night off. Because if I bomb, it's, 'Oh, he's not funny - he's just doing it because of his brother.' "

" People say an Oscar validates your career. No, it doesn't. There's more good actors without Oscars than there are with Oscars. "

" When you're doing standup, it's just you. It's your written jokes. You perform it however your personality is. "

" Any club has more than enough comics, so if you're not there every night talking to the booker, you're not going to get on. You have to be there more than they are. "

" Mexicans work so hard. Jamaicans are like, 'Hey mon. Take it easy. You work too 'ard.' Sneak into the country Sunday night, working Monday morning. "

" If you enjoy and become a fan of Tony Rock, I really appreciate it! But, I do my comedy for me, so I don't try and please everyone or appease anyone. In the end, it's for me. "

" I'm a skinny kid from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. "

" Ask Frank Stallone how far your name gets you. "

" When I was growing up with Chris, I was the little brother that was kind of annoying: 'Can I come?' 'Get out of here.' 'Can I play?' 'Get out of here.' So that's our relationship. I just do my own thing. I leave him alone. "