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" You know, we're missing so much as African-Americans and we should be concerned about what's going on in Africa. "
Chris Tucker
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" Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me. "
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" I love traveling. It not only opens my mind up, but it also allows me to use my fame in another way through humanitarian works and stuff, and being an influence around the world. "
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" I think my life is a movie and your life reflects your work. "
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" I couldn't imagine not having clean water. "
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" My mom raised me to never have anything control me. "
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" I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words. "
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" Georgia was a great place to live, but I wanted to get out because I knew the opportunities for what I was doing - stand-up comedy and eventually acting - were in Los Angeles. "
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" Everybody goes through a lot of the same things, and I talk about those, and that's the key. You have to connect with your audience, and I might take them on a trip with me, tell them I went here and I went there and they'll go with me, you know, to hear the stories. "
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" I want to keep working, I want to keep doing my humanitarian stuff around the world, shining light on different places that have problems. Keep making movies, make people laugh. "
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" This country is just that great that the opportunities are there for a Hispanic president, a black president or any other race for a president, yes. "
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" Day-to-day life is a lot of work. I work a lot on stand-up stuff, and then day-to-day life and, you know, just living. It's always different. Try to work out, try to stay in shape, and try to have some fun. "
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" I travel. I do a lot of traveling around the world. "
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" I do a lot of traveling around the world. "
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World
" A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different. "
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" Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one. "
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Situation
Hurt
" You don't know who you messing with man, I slap people for fun. That's what I do man! You wanna play rough, huh, I kill for fun! "
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You
Play
People
" Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It's a good thing. That's why I want to work. "
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People
" I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian. "
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" I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life. "
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Career
Always
" It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside. "
Chris Tucker
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" I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I've done, I'm going to do a lot of great work in the future. "
Chris Tucker
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Great
" You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don't say nothin' 'bout the money. 'Hi, how ya doin'? How's ya mama doing?' Man, how's my money doin'? "
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" I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down. "
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" When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through. "
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