Comedian Chris Rock Quotes & Sayings

There was this whole middle time that only Chris Rock came out of, you know, 10 years ago it was Chris and a few other people, but that's about it. Chris is in a class of his own; I don't see another comedian who I put in high regard as him. — Bob Saget

Only black people in the whole neighborhood, so let's break it down: Me, I'm a decent comedian, I'm a'ight. Mary J. Blige, one of the greatest R&B singers to ever walk the Earth. Jay-Z, one of the greatest rappers to ever live. Eddie Murphy, one of the funniest actors to ever, ever do it. Do you know what the white man that lives next door to me does for a living? He's a f*****g dentist. — Chris Rock

I try to stay with it and I try to stay in contact with comedians and just keep comedians in my life 'cause comedians are their own species. If you get away from them, especially as a comedian, I think it's dangerous. — Chris Rock

Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjoying themselves, and I'm a professional funny guy. — Chris Rock

I've told Michael Jackson jokes. If you got really technical, you could say those are jokes about child molestation. You could, if you got technical. A lot of this is just selective outrage because honestly, the audience are the ones that tell us that something shouldn't be spoken. The audience lets us know. And I've never, in my almost 30 years of being a comedian, seen a comedian continue to tell a joke that the audience doesn't respond to. I've never seen it. — Chris Rock

Comedians are the one who have to tell the emperor he has no clothes on. — Chris Rock

A comedian has to live in his head. All this comedy comes from a lonely place. When you're surrounded by an entourage, you're not living in your head. — Chris Rock

I never had the confidence to say I was going to be in front of the camera as a comedian until I saw Eddie Murphy years later. — Chris Rock

History is a series of approximations of the final singularity. — Terence McKenna

Chris Rock went from a guy whose name you knew from SNL to a legendary comedian by working his ass off. — Ted Alexandro

I think anybody in front of a crowd is a comedian. — Chris Rock

Being a comedian is a lot like being an athlete. If you're Carl Lewis and you're the fastest, then no matter what you're the fastest. — Chris Rock

Standup comedians are attracted to one another because of their faults. So we're all kind of messed up in the same way, and once I was around a group of people that saw the world in a different way, it's like this is where I need to be. — Chris Rock

My guys studied music from a young age and I did not so I think, like, adding the idiot to the table of very talented musicians gave us a unique rub. — Anthony Kiedis

You just got to be really logical when you're a comedian - to a fault. Like a lawyer's got to believe in the law. — Chris Rock

The best part is just having a partner. There is no real worst part. I'm not going to say there's a worst part. I mean I'm a comedian - comedians like to work alone. So maybe I'm not the ideal guy to be married to, in that sense. — Chris Rock

Compromise is what binds people together. Compromise is sharing and conciliatory, it is loving and kind and unselfish. — Ali Harris

Though part of me had always wanted to be a comedian, another part of me had always wanted to be Bryant Gumbel or Dan Rather. — Chris Rock

Volunteering is so pervasive it's invisible. We take for granted all the things that have been pioneered by concerned, active volunteers. — Susan J. Ellis

Bill Cosby was the first comedian I was exposed to, because he doesn't curse. — Chris Rock

A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it. — Alan Kay

I like the tradition of the Oscars. I like that some of the greatest comedians ever have hosted the show. — Chris Rock

As far as stand-ups go, I always loved Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, and Sinbad. Basically, I love black comedians because they're the funniest. I wish I were a black comedian, actually. — Adam DeVine

Before I was a comedian, I thought the coolest thing that would happen to me was to be a teenager. Boy, was I wrong. — Chris Rock

Nobody really wants to be a stand-up, they want to get on TV. — Chris Rock

Eddie Murphy is to comedians what Nicki Minaj is to Spanx. — Chris Rock

Every comedian has a moment in his life when he realizes he's a little bit different from everyone else. It's like being the only guy in a movie who sees the ghost. The ghost talks to you and you talk to him. Then you turn to your friend and say, Hey. Do you see that ghost? And he says, What ghost? — Chris Rock

Black comics, they only watch Black comedians. You're a comedian; you're not just a Black comedian. You're a comedian. I try to get that through to everybody. — Chris Rock

I'm a rap comedian the same way Bill Cosby is a jazz comedian, Cosby's laid back. I'm like, bang, bang bang, right into it. — Chris Rock

I never wanted to churn it out. Comedians tend to work all the time. They never put it down like musicians who might make an album then take three or four years off to recharge their batteries. Comedians tend to work straight through and they get stale because of that. Even when I didn't have a lot of money I never ever did it unless I had something new to say. — Chris Rock

I always say about my daughters, they save me from my miserable self. They take me out, you know, a comedian, you could live in your head a lot. And you're writing and you're doubting. But when I'm with my kids and my family, it's all about them. — Chris Rock