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" On 'Saturday Night Live,' I never really wrote. You know, I would just - I would let the writers cast me into the show. So my strength - and I put all my energies into performance. I just couldn't deal with the rejection, you know, getting your sketches cut, and it was hard for me. "

Tracy Morgan

Night

Performance

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Funniest

" 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. Trauma. "

" If you're the kind of person who likes numbers and statistics, I'm the long shot - the Lotto Powerball winner. I'm the mutation in the DNA that makes evolution a reality. I am the new black. "

" I love animals, but I don't want to talk to them. I'd rather be able to talk to other people on other continents and understand them. "

" Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy. "

" Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes. "

" We need to learn to laugh at ourselves because when you don't laugh, you cry. And I don't feel like crying. "

" I deal with my sons like young men. If they have a problem with something, they come to me. I am the type of dad that will drop everything I am doing for them, and always tell them to talk to me about it. "

" When Richard Pryor did comedy, it was like he was having a conversation. "

Tracy Morgan

Having

Conversation

" I have friends who are black, white, purple, gay, straight, Martian, yellow, old, and young. I have friends who are animals and a few who I believe to be robots. All of them are people to me. In my mind, it's not about what you look like or what you do; it's about who you are inside. "

" My older brother was born, who was a cripple, then I was born, and my sister was born, the only girl. So I was between the only girl and the crippled guy. I was the middle guy. "

" Where I came from, people couldn't afford to go to the theatre. "

" Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day. "

" If I make fun of somebody at my show, believe me, it's something we can all laugh at. "

" I do comedy for real people. "

" I'm no Jerry Seinfeld. I wasn't raised with some backyard with a creek and trees and all that. "

" Most people don't know what's happening around them because they're just speeding through life. And before they know it, they're just old. So I just try to slow it down. "

" I'm not a child star, but you could say that I've grown up on TV. I went from being an unknown, down-and-out comic from Brooklyn and the Bronx to being a regular character on a major network comedy called 'Martin.' From there I went on to become the most notable black comic on 'Saturday Night Live' since Eddie Murphy. "

" I've been funny my whole life. This is a gift God gave me. "

Tracy Morgan

Life

Gift

" I love working with Alec Baldwin. He's one of the five greatest actors ever to live. "

" God gave us dreams, but he gave us kids to make all those dreams worthwhile. And when I look at all my kids, I say everything that I've ever went through in my life was worthwhile. "

" I know how people are. We fixate on controversy and all that. "

" If you can survive 'Saturday Night Live,' then you're good as far as show business is concerned. "

" Welcome to post-racial America. I'm the face of post-racial America. "

" I believe gay, straight, anybody, everybody's supposed to be happy in this world, man. "

" It gets scary when you're dealing with people who don't know how to separate fact from fiction. "

" I love '30 Rock' because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week. "

" Michael's the ultimate entertainer. After Michael Jackson, it's Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and Bruce Lee. "

" I had a great time working on 'Saturday Night Live.' It was one of the important times in my life. "