Chris Tucker is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He is known for playing the role of Smokey in F. Gary Gray’s Friday and as Detective James Carter in Brett Ratner’s Rush Hour film series. He became a frequent stand up performer on Def Comedy Jam in the 1990s. He appeared in Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element, Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown, David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook, and Brett Ratner’s Money Talks, plus many other films. He is also the founder of the Chris Tucker Foundation. May these Chris Tucker Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.
1. “You got to control your own destiny. You got to keep writing different stuff. Keep switching up and never do the same thing too many times.” Chris Tucker
2. “Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that’s where he got his character ‘the tramp’ from. It’s a bad situation that he transformed into a comedic one.” Chris Tucker
3. “I told a joke and people laughed and it was the best feeling. I knew I wanted to do this as a career. I never knew I could get such a high from telling a joke. There’s something so extraordinary about having people listening to you and hanging onto your words – it’s a great feeling.” Chris Tucker
4. “Day-to-day life is a lot of work. I work a lot on stand-up stuff, and then day-to-day life and, you know, just living. It’s always different. Try to work out, try to stay in shape, and try to have some fun.” Chris Tucker
5. “Just believe in yourself and work really hard. And when doors open, take advantage of every opportunity you can.” Chris Tucker
6. “Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money – that really doesn’t interest me.” Chris Tucker
7. “Everybody goes through a lot of the same things, and I talk about those, and that’s the key.” Chris Tucker
8. “I think my life is a movie and your life reflects your work.” Chris Tucker
9. “Making people laugh is giving, and it’s healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It’s a good thing. That’s why I want to work.” Chris Tucker
10. “One thing about me, when I make a decision about something, I realize when you make choices in life, that dictates your life.” Chris Tucker
11. “You have to connect with your audience, and I might take them on a trip with me, tell them I went here and I went there and they’ll go with me, you know, to hear the stories.” Chris Tucker
12. “I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie roles you want to pick. I think if you’ve got an interesting life, you want to do interesting movies about interesting things.” Chris Tucker
13. “You see people waving. You don’t see people having problems, with each other at least.” Chris Tucker
14. “You loan your friend money. You see them again; they don’t say nothing ’bout the money. Hi, how you doing’? How’s your mama doing? Man, how’s my money doing?” Chris Tucker
15. “It’s crazy because people expect you to be funny all the time and every day is not a funny day. I go to funerals and people are like, tell a joke and say one of your lines in a movie. It’s a funeral, man!” Chris Tucker
16. “Instead of acting disappointed because I’m not like you, maybe you can just accept me for who I am and love me anyway because I’m your son.” Chris Tucker
17. “I tell people that stand-up’s like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down – or at least three times a week to get it down.”Chris Tucker
18. “I want to keep working, I want to keep doing my humanitarian stuff around the world, shining light on different places that have problems. Keep making movies, make people laugh.” Chris Tucker
19. “In stand-up you can go either way. It’s live. Somebody might say something in the crowd, you might respond to it. But in a movie, you could be spontaneous too. But you pretty much have to stick to that story or that scene or that script, but in stand-up you can go wherever you want to. It’s more freedom.” Chris Tucker
20. “A lot of lines in movies were written, but I’m always improvising. Once you get into the scene, it just comes to me.” Chris Tucker
21. “I love a wedding, there is something so emotional. When the ladies start throwing themselves at me.” Chris Tucker
22. “Georgia was a great place to live, but I wanted to get out because I knew the opportunities for what I was doing – stand-up comedy and eventually acting – were in Los Angeles.” Chris Tucker
23. “I think you’ve got to have a depth, a deeper depth to take stand-up into acting, but I think it really helps you as a stand-up to home into different characters and stuff easily.” Chris Tucker
24. “I’ve lived a little bit and traveled the world and experienced a lot of things that I can play any role, and I think I can get into stuff that people never thought I would ever do because of my experiences and growth as a person.” Chris Tucker
25. “I get on stage and talk about different stuff in my life and what I’ve been through and what I think about the world. It’s picking out highlights of things and how I became who I am and how my daddy raised me.” Chris Tucker
26. “I reenact everything. I love to paint a picture for my audience. I’m a lot like Richard Pryor in that aspect. I do a lot of acting on stage, acting out and visualizing stuff. I love to do that. I’m into it so much, it just comes out of me.” Chris Tucker
27. “It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.” Chris Tucker
28. “I feel like every time I go out I want to do a good job. I want people to say that he’s just as good at stand-up as he is in some of the movies I’ve seen him in, so I try to do the best every time I go out there.” Chris Tucker
29. “I couldn’t tell people what I wanted to do because I was from Atlanta. You don’t tell people you’re gonna be a comedian in Atlanta. That means you ain’t gonna do nothing.” Chris Tucker
30. “I believe that I’m going to have a long career, as long as I want, and I think by me going out into the world living a little bit made me, gave me more depth, so when I do go, going into movies is much easier for me.” Chris Tucker
31. “I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I’ve done, I’m going to do a lot of work in the future.” Chris Tucker
32. “When you’re first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you’re young and you’re black, you do a bad movie and you’re through.” Chris Tucker
33. “I couldn’t imagine not having clean water.” Chris Tucker
34. “I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.” Chris Tucker
35. “My mom raised me to never have anything control me.” Chris Tucker
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