Chris Rock Quotes

I am still a comic, a fantastic one.

I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.

I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.

Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to unwind and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, often several shows in a night.

You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.

Stand-up, by far, is my favorite.

The New Day has been the New Day because what we have done. We can be entertaining but then we can get serious, too.

Stand-up comedy is not a man's job. It's an alpha job: To be the only person in a room with a microphone who's allowed to talk.

Being a comedian is like being a con man. You have to make 'em like you before you can fool 'em.

Sometimes you watch comedians and feel like they're jerking off in front of you, but they want you to see how big it is.

I [give] maybe the long-winded speeches that not everybody reads, but I can also do a slow jam on Jimmy Fallon better than most.

I think anybody in front of a crowd is a comedian.

You saw a lot of guys, especially in the early '90s, whose acts were a pitch for a sitcom. A lot of them were very funny, but there's nothing worse than watching comedians or musicians who are up there and are doing something they're not interested in.

I've learned to have absolutely no regrets about any jokes I've ever done.

I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

I gravitated toward stand-up because there's no overhead. I mean, literally, there's no overhead: Often, you're outdoors performing in front of groups of people.

As a comic, I used to know more about pop culture.

I became a dancer in self-defense. I was doing a comedy monologue and didn't know how else to get off, so I danced off. I've been dancing ever since, but I'm still a comedian.

I like to make people laugh. That's for sure. And I really like to humiliate myself and go very far in derision and stuff. But no, I like everything. I started a little bit of doing drama, too. I like that, too. I guess I just want to touch everything.

I like to do talk show appearances where I get to just be myself, and I do stand-up where I can completely be myself. That's what I've always loved the most, of anything.

I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized I enjoyed performing things that I came up with myself more and I enjoyed making people laugh more than making people cry or think.

I love doing radio, and I love doing stand-up, obviously.

I'm a comedian first. I've learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that's how I've learned. I didn't take classes or anything. I don't need no classroom.