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" If my sisters like something I do, then I'm very happy with it. I only listen to my sisters! "
Tony Rock
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" My family is just naturally funny. "
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Naturally
Just
Funny
" 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. "
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Love
Vacation
Want
" My father drove a truck, and my mother was a school teacher. They wanted their children to go the traditional route: get good grades, go to college, get a job. "
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Children
Teacher
Mother
" 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? "
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Jail
Hate
Doing
" 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.' "
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Brother
Luxury
Off
" My pops, the whole time while I was growing up, was conscious of what we ate. He made sure we exercised and had time outside. He knew having a healthy lifestyle meant exercise. "
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Time
Up
Healthy
" My first stand-up experience, like most comics, was horrible. I got booed offstage. I thought I was funnier than I was. But the walk from the back of the room to the stage was the most excited I'd ever been about anything in my life other than kissing a girl. That's how I knew I had to get back onstage and do it again. "
Tony Rock
Experience
Walk
My Life
" 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.' "
Tony Rock
Eat
Why
Kid
" My older brothers have their own children, and they have to go to soccer practice and football practice on the weekends. They're doing their thing and on the weekends, and I'm on the road. The busier we get, the less time we get to see each other. That's why, when we see each other, it's really, really kind of special. "
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Road
Practice
Football
" People say an Oscar validates your career. No, it doesn't. There's more good actors without Oscars than there are with Oscars. "
Tony Rock
People
People Say
Say
" Sometimes I might get in the door a little quicker than somebody else because of my last name. But if I'm not prepared, I'm not afforded the luxury of, 'Oh, he's a little green.' It's, 'He's not talented,' where the next guy can have a bad day. "
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Bad Day
Luxury
Name
" I saw my father every day of my childhood. "
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Day
Saw
Father
" I talk about everything - politics, the economy; the news will give you more material than you can ever use. But relationships? That's the ongoing battle. You talk about men and women, and across-the-board everyone can relate to that. "
Tony Rock
Women
News
Men
" 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. "
Tony Rock
Dinner
Thanksgiving
People
" You got to be willing to be knocked out to win a fight. You got to be willing to get booed off the stage to get a standing ovation. "
Tony Rock
Standing
Fight
Got
" 'All Def' is unlike any other comedy show or set because 'All Def' goes back to the essence of how urban comedy started. We give it a 'stoop appeal.' A stoop appeal is important for us because it's where pretty much all black comics started doing their standup: cracking jokes on the stoop, in the hood. "
Tony Rock
Doing
Black
Comedy
" Women do so much aesthetically to attract men that they sometimes overlook the simple things, like cooking. "
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Men
Sometimes
Women
" I talk to the audience like I talk to my friends on the stoop. "
Tony Rock
Talk
Friends
Audience
" Once school let out every year, my siblings and I would get packed into a station wagon to drive to South Carolina to see my grandparents for summer vacation. If school let out on Friday, we were probably in the station wagon no later than Sunday morning, and we would make stops along the way. "
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School
Morning
Drive
" I was depressed for a long time. "
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Long Time
Long
Depressed
" I'm a skinny kid from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. "
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Brooklyn
Kid
Skinny
" 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. "
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Talking
Night
You
" 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. "
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Brother
Impact
Loved
" My favorite comics are the ones who say funny stuff but also give you the message. They give you the laughter, but there's also the, 'Mmm - I didn't take that into consideration.' "
Tony Rock
Say
Message
You
" 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. "
Tony Rock
Appreciate
End
Rock
" 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. "
Tony Rock
School
Listening
Trouble
" Never steal jokes. "
Tony Rock
Jokes
Never
Steal
" If I modeled myself after anybody, it probably would have been Richard Pryor. "
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After
Would
Myself
" 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. "
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Relationship
Brother
Alone
" When you're doing standup, it's just you. It's your written jokes. You perform it however your personality is. "
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Doing
Jokes
Just