Tracy Morgan famous quotes

And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Beautiful #Butterfly #Black

I never wanted the ha-ha-ha laughter [at my shows]. I always aimed for the gut. I always aimed for the pretty girls in the front row, laughing and leaning over and pooting.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Girl #Laughter #Laughing

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Reality #Turkeys #Sense Of Humor

I'm not focused on the outrageousness. I'm just focused on being funny, and raising my kids. I don't even read the newspaper, I don't read that crap.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Kids #Newspapers #Crap

They say when opportunity knocks you should let it in and invite it to sit at your table. F*** that -- when opportunity knocks, you should take it captive. Beat that s*** down. I've got opportunity tied to a chair in my basement with a ball gag in its mouth. Opportunity ain't even thinking about leaving my house. If you keep quiet for a second, you'll hear it whining.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Opportunity #Thinking #House

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.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Thinking #Tone #Sometimes

I don't even deal with politics. I just don't believe in them. I think politics are politricks. My whole thing is power to the people. I don't put my faith in any one man. I keep my faith in God. That's where I keep my faith.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Believe #Men #Thinking

Eddie [Murphy] is an icon. He's one of the reason why I started doing comedy in the beginning. He opened a lot of doors for black people.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Doors #Icons #People

I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Dark #Stuff #Sometimes

You can't hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I'm just a comedian. My job is like Archie Bunker.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Teacher #Jobs #School

In my heart, I really don't care who you love, same sex or not; as long as you have the ability to love, that's the important thing here.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Sex #Heart #Long

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

#Night #Saturday #Show Business

I think people would want to see Tracy Morgan host 'Saturday Night Live.'
-- Tracy Morgan

#Night #Thinking #People

My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of The Color Purple. It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Growing Up #Color #Purple

I don't have a hateful bone in my body. I don't believe anyone should be bullied or made to feel bad about who they are.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Believe #Body #Hateful

When a child is born, it's born with a heart of gold, but the way of this world can turn that heart cold. I'm still a good person, and I thank God for that - He's working with me on it.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Children #Heart #Thank God

It's just, people recognize you for your work, you know? They love you for your work, and they judge you for your work. It's awesome to have people quoting you. I love it.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Love You #Judging #People

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

#Growing Up #Careers #Choices

Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Light #News #Speed

I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Strong #Powerful #Sharks

To me, politics is a pile of tricks.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Tricks

People bring camera phones into comedy shows and clubs and concerts, and sound bites never come out right.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Phones #People #Clubs

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

#Frank #Entertainers #Ultimate

I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She made sure we had Christmases. That was my mother. My father wasn't there for that.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Mother #Father #Stubbornness

If we all had a little bit of Michael Jackson in us, I think it would make the world a better place.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Thinking #World #Littles

A stand-up's job is to hold the mirror up to society and to look at what we're afraid of. That's why we had shows like 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons.' We made fun of ourselves then.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Jobs #Fun #Mirrors

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Careers #Foundation

Bones heal, but the loss of my friend will never heal,
-- Tracy Morgan

#Loss #Bones #Heal

It's very important to be in your child's life and know what's going on and be there with them.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Children #Important #Your Children

My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Father #Businessman

I'm around my kids every day. I'm regular. We're a regular family. My wife cooks, she washes clothes, I read books, I pump my own gas, I get my own hair cut.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Book #Kids #Cutting

Life smacks Tracy Morgan in the face, and I don't mean to talk in third party, but no, it doesn't stop raining when I come outside, no, absolutely not. I'm very in touch.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Rain #Party #Mean

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.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Dad #Son #Men

I don't need no stool and mike stand. I don't need all of that to be funny. I've been funny my whole life. This is a gift God gave me. I spread love wherever I'm at. I'm like Marvin Gaye.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Needs #Stools #Whole Life

You will be surprised but I do a lot of studying and I watch National Geographic.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Watches #Study

You get somebody to crack a smile, that's a beautiful thing.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Beautiful #Cracks #Beautiful Things

Stand-up is my foundation. That's where it started at. And I love it because it's personal. It's mine. It's all me. It's my experience in life.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Foundation

What am I afraid of? The IRS. Thats it. I dont want those people knockin on my door, man.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Men #Doors #People

Live every week like it's shark week.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Sharks #Week

I just see myself as a short, dumpy guy with bad feet, and I'm passionate.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Feet #Guy #Passionate

I love 30 Rock because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Rocks #Cuckoos #Nests

I would love to try action films.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Trying #Action #Film

What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Years #Trying #Lasts

If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.
-- Tracy Morgan

I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Night #Apes #Fans

I was like any other inner-city kid with a chip on his shoulder because his daddy and his mommy wasn't together.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Kids #Cities #Daddy

The truth is if I had a gay son, I would love him just as much as if he was straight. I might have to try to love even more because I know of the difficulty that he would have in society.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Son #Gay #Trying

Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Band #No Respect #Shows

I'm not a hateful person and don't condone any kind of violence against others,
-- Tracy Morgan

#Violence #Hateful #Kind

Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken nuggets.
-- Tracy Morgan

#White #Competition #Minorities

I can't watch American Idol... it's like karaoke without the booze.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Funny #Idols #Karaoke

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

#Night #Important #Saturday

Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Clubs #Sacred #Anything Goes

Saturday Night Live' was like a university for funny.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Night #Saturday #University

Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Reality #Scary #Scary Things

People walked out on Richard Pryor and he's the funniest man alive.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Men #People #Alive

Martin Lawrence is one of my comedic heroes, and he's a genius.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Hero #Genius #Comedic

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

#Whole Life

I think the word 'pregnant' is funny.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Thinking #Pregnant

I spread love wherever I'm at. I'm like Marvin Gaye.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Spread #Marvin

I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Want #Comedy

I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Blessed #Brooklyn #Lucky

I love this cornbread so much, I wanna take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant.
-- Tracy Morgan

#School #Middle #Behinds

The truth is, I've never thought of myself as the Michael Jordan of comedy. And that's a good thing. You know why? Because I'm not. Wasn't that Richard Pryor? Yes, it was. I know what I am: I'm funny!
-- Tracy Morgan

#Jordan #Comedy #Truth Is

I don't do drama. I'm a comedian.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Drama #Comedian

As a child, I was able to know that I wanted a better life.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Children #Able #Better Life

Listen, Bruce Lee fought out of anger. That's why they call it the 'Fists of Fury.' Michael Jackson danced with fury. I do stand up out of fury. I'm not mad at anybody. I'm not mad at any human being because I'm a human being.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Mad #Fists #Fury