Tracy Morgan

No one set that I ever do is the same. I mean, if I go to a comedy club, and I perform three sets, all three sets are different because anything can happen in between sets.

If you can get your life down to one minute at a time, you don't miss anything. You have total abundance of information and material.

I do my best creating on stage.

My voice is very distinct. People hear Tracy Morgan's voice, and they know Tracy Morgan right off the bat because I've been in their homes for so many years.

Working with Bruce Willis makes my career authentic. I may not get an Oscar, but I worked with Bruce Willis. That matters more to me.

That's a gift God's given us: the ability to work together in collaborations.

People are just way too sensitive. You couldn't have a show like 'Archie Bunker' on TV. People would go crazy; they would lose their minds.

I have a nice following in Boston. The Boston crowd is very hip.

Whenever I perform, people get me because I'm talking about things that people can identify with and relate to. I'm not just up there doing jokey, jokey, joke.

If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?

I think hip hop is dead. It's all pop now. If you call it hip hop, then you need to stop. Hip hop was a movement. Hip hop was a culture. Hip hop was a way of life. It's all commercial now.

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

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

The version of me you see on TV now and in my feature films is a pretty happy guy, isn't he?

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.

Who's coming with me? I don't know where I'm going, but who's coming with me?

In New York, we get down. In L.A., everybody's pretty much standing around like they're at a keg stand. You got to get the party started, so I just take my shirt off.

I've played outrageous characters my whole career.

I know how bad bullying can hurt. I was bullied when I was a kid.

Parents should support and love their kids no matter what.

I got five kids - I claim three for income tax purposes.

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

Of all the sicknesses, there is probably none more abusive than homophobia.

My heart is committed to giving everyone the same rights that I deserve for myself.

The paparazzi do what they do, man. They have a job, too.

I mellowed out; my daughter mellowed me out, and I don't get mad at anyone.

We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.

I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York.

No matter what, if my son was gay, I'd treat him like a king.

Rock bottom for some people is death. Some people never learn from their mistakes. They don't learn from other people's mistakes.

All women like to look up to their men.

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.

All you single fathers got to man up.

Black people dance well because we start early - there's music being played everywhere. White people? They don't start dancing until they get to college, and by then, it's too late; the bottom don't move with the top no matter how hard they try.

I've got friends who want money but don't want to do anything to earn it.

Anybody who's lived in the ghetto knows that you don't move during the daytime. Here's why: You don't want anyone to know you're leaving, and you don't want anyone knowing where you're going.

When you're in the spotlight, people want to dissect you and then put you back together the way they want you.

Some people believe everything they see on TV. People, it's called tel-lie-vision!

You have to be highly intelligent to get away with a dumb joke. That takes a pretty smart fella.

I guess I'm entertaining; I guess I'm interesting. I guess the things that I say sell papers. I guess they sell magazines. I don't know.

I don't even read the newspaper; I don't read that crap.

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

I have the person at home, the person who has his privacy, too. Michael Jackson didn't do the moonwalk in his kitchen.

Having boys is different. Boys, you put sneakers on, and they're out, they're ready. Girls, you gotta pay a little bit more attention to them.

If I get some Bruce Lee nun-chucks that he actually used in a movie, those are going in the case. Those will never be used. Those will never be touched.

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.

America doesn't like to hear about things like welfare. 'Don't talk about that. We don't like what it did to people!' Yeah, but it happened.

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

There aren't a lot of guys out there keeping it real. Everybody's been branded. Everybody's been bought and sold.

People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We're losing all of our communication skills.