Tracy Morgan

I\'m not really much into politics, because it\'s rarely discussed in my line of work, but I know that Barack Obama is trying his best, and that at some point down the road, he\'s going to get it right.

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.

I touch on sex in my stand-up and it\'s funny, because when I talk about sex from an adult point of view, people cringe. But if I talk about war or killing, people laugh. So it\'s sick. It\'s really demented.

Stand-up is really personal. It\'s not like somebody else is writing the and you have to do what they write.

I can make people laugh at the drop of a dime. God\'s given me that ability.

I don\'t really take the college tours and all that. Those are young people and I\'m quite sure they\'re mature enough to understand, but they haven\'t seen or lived real life yet.

Stand-up is mine. It\'s a part of me.

I\'ve got to show life as I see it.

Everything I talk about in stand-up is my experiences as an American, as a father, as a husband, as a black man, as a human being.

When I do stand-up... I get to do whatever I want to do. There\'s no boundaries. You\'ll get to know me. You\'ll leave with a piece of me.

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.

I like to do stand-up for people who live real life.

I\'m not afraid to move away from funny. I\'m not afraid of that.

George Carlin is an influence on a generation. He made me want to do comedy.

Fame doesn\'t matter. Money doesn\'t matter. Those things are forever fleeting. I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I\'m long gone my great-great-grandchildren can walk up to it and say, \'That\'s my ancestor.\' That will be my legacy.

I don\'t like doing stand-up for little kids. It\'s not geared for that.

Young stand-ups, we ought to do comedy in George Carlin\'s spirit, in Richard Pryor\'s spirit, in Jackie Gleason\'s spirit, in Lucille Ball\'s spirit, because they did it with the spirit.

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I\'ve made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

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

Outside of show business, I live a normal life.

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.

Don\'t follow in my footsteps. Be original, and create your own path. Be a trailblazer! Do you! Be better than me. Do you! Be happy and have joy in your life.

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

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

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

All women like to look up to their men.

I don\'t get on the phone and prank people and things like that on the phone with people, no.

I\'m a black man in America, so I\'m going to be misunderstood.

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

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.