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" There's nothing like the freedom of being in a roomful of strangers and trying to make them laugh... You either sink or swim. It's like verbal boxing. "
Tony Rock
Laugh
Trying
Freedom
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" I can make anything in the room funny in a few seconds. "
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" '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. "
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" Trouble was almost inevitable. I grew up with so many at-risk kids. Kids had things go wrong. "
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Trouble
Wrong
" If you're at the Comedy Store or the Laugh Factory or the Improv, even two minutes helps. You never know who might be in the audience. "
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Know
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" Nobody needs a chitlin. "
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Nobody
Needs
" 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
" You can live with diabetes. It's not the worst thing to have, but you have to manage yourself and have some self control. "
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Self
Yourself
You
" I haven't been offstage for more than two days since I started doing comedy. "
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Doing
More
Started
" I saw my father every day of my childhood. "
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Day
Saw
Father
" I have seven brothers and two sisters, so there was always a little friendly competition in the house. I don't think that's anything unusual with that many siblings. "
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Always
Two
Think
" 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. "
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Brother
Way
Kid
" Every day of my life is a dream goal. "
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My Life
Day
Dream
" I will never be the comic that apologizes for telling a joke. "
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Never
Joke
Comic
" I'm a skinny kid from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. "
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Brooklyn
Kid
Skinny
" Nothing's given in the Rock family. "
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Rock
Family
Given
" 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
" 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
" Who's been loyal to a Kardashain? "
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Been
Loyal
" People say an Oscar validates your career. No, it doesn't. There's more good actors without Oscars than there are with Oscars. "
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People
People Say
Say
" 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
" 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
Go
You
Eat
" Women do so much aesthetically to attract men that they sometimes overlook the simple things, like cooking. "
Tony Rock
Men
Sometimes
Women
" Regular people laugh harder. Industry people are stuffy, very judgmental. "
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People
Industry
Laugh
" 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. "
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Standing
Fight
Got
" We weren't rich by any means, but we had each other, so we were rich in family. When you don't have a lot, it just fuels that creativity. So it manifested in us doing characters of people in the neighborhood or doing impersonations of Mom and Dad. The comedy bug, it takes over. "
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Creativity
Family
Mom
" 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. "
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Experience
Walk
My Life
" 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
" 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.' "
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Say
Message
You
" Never steal jokes. "
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Jokes
Never
Steal
" New York is home. It's so unique that there is no other place like it. "
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New
New York
Unique