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" What amazes me is that the whole world is fascinated by Kim Kardashian. What's her talent? "

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" 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.' "

" 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. "

" I saw my father every day of my childhood. "

" New York is home. It's so unique that there is no other place like it. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" '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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" My family is just naturally funny. "

" Regular people laugh harder. Industry people are stuffy, very judgmental. "

" Nothing's given in the Rock family. "

" I know I'm going to be doing standup for the rest of my life. "

" I will never be the comic that apologizes for telling a joke. "

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

Brothers And Sisters

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Nobody needs a chitlin. "

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

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