Chris Rock, a renowned comedian and actor, is known for his sharp wit and often insightful observations on life, relationships, and society.
Here are some memorable quotes from Chris Rock.
Chris Rock Quotes
- “I used to work at McDonald’s making minimum wage. You know what that means when someone pays you minimum wage? You know what your boss was trying to say? ‘Hey if I could pay you less, I would, but it’s against the law.'”
- “You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America’s Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, and Germany doesn’t want to go to war.”
- “Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it’s about having a lot of options.”
- “My mother used to say, ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.'”
- “Only dumb people try to impress smart people. Smart people just do what they do.”
- “You can be married and bored or single and lonely. Ain’t no happiness nowhere.”
- “If you can keep your son off the pipe and your daughter off the pole, you’re ahead of the game.”
- “I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.”
- “A man is only as faithful as his options.”
- There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.
- “I don’t get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there’s no rehab for stupidity.”
- “Nobody is pro-abortion. They are pro-choice.”
- “Nothing makes a woman angrier than a man who doesn’t want to have sex.”
- “You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it’s your last. Bullsh-t. Life is long. You’re probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you’re gonna have to live with the choices you make for the next fifty years.”
- “I don’t get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there’s no rehab for stupidity.”
- “Everything’s not black and white. We live in a world of gray.”
- “I used to have horrible cars, because I never had a car payment. Now there’s something about a car payment, you know? You just got better credit all of a sudden. People start respecting you more.”
- “I think it’s better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier.”
- “Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everybody else.”
- “Drugs are illegal, but the drug dealers aren’t going to rest because of that. They’re like Jehovah’s Witnesses. They’re going to come to you.”
- “You don’t pay taxes – they take taxes.”
- “I always say about my daughters, I’m preparing them for college and preparing them to get out of college.”
- “Anyone who makes up their mind about an issue before they hear the issue is a fool.”
- “School shootings were invented by blacks… and stolen by the white man.”
- “I think of myself as a comedian who has the privilege of writing jokes about the things that I actually believe.”
- “I’m not afraid to be angry. I’m not afraid to be sad. I’m not afraid to be funny. I’m not afraid to be anything.”
- “When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they’re crazy, because ‘sacrifice’ infers that there was something better to do than being with your children.”
- “I don’t believe in people who think that having a kid is a career.”
- “People always say kids act crazy. Kids don’t act crazy; kids act like people who’ve had too much to drink.”
- “You don’t need no gun control. You know what you need? We need some bullet control. Men, we need to control the bullets.”
- “If a woman tells you she’s twenty and looks sixteen, she’s twelve. If she tells you she’s twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she’s damn near forty.”
- “I’m not saying he should have killed her, but I understand.”
- “The government hates rap. That’s why they don’t arrest anybody that kills rappers! Only the good ones are dead, man. Only the good ones: Biggie dead, Tupac dead, Vanilla Ice still alive!”
- “I watch the Discovery Channel, and you know what I discovered? I need a girlfriend.”
- “Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.”
- “If you can keep your son off the pipe and your daughter off the pole, you’re ahead of the game.”
- “There are no stupid questions – just stupid people.”
- “I think of myself as a comedian who has the privilege of writing jokes about the things that I actually believe.”
- “You know what they say, ‘There’s no reason to ever hit a woman.’ Sh-t. There’s a reason to hit everybody. You just don’t do it.”
- “You know, some people say that kids are the future. That’s no excuse to throw the present away.”
- “The first Amendment protects you from the government, not from the audience. If you suck, the audience can boo.”
- “My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.”
- “Marriage is so tough, Nelson Mandela got divorced. He got out of jail after 27 years of torture, spent six months with his wife, and said, ‘I can’t take this.'”
- “We live in a world where losing your phone is more dramatic than losing your virginity.”
- “I think of myself as a writer who can perform his own material.”
- Yeah, I love being famous. It’s almost like being white, y’know?”
- “Nobody ever says, ‘Dad, thanks for knocking out this rent.’ ‘Hey, Daddy, I sure love this hot water.’ ‘Dad, this is easy to read with all this light.'”
- “There are no clear-cut, good or evil nations; it’s all complicated.”
- “You know what they say, you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. I have a different version. You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can’t make him think.”
- “I think all drugs should be legal. I’m not going to do them, but I think it’s your right.”
- “You don’t pay taxes. They take taxes.”
- “Everybody’s got a crazy uncle. If you don’t think you have a crazy uncle, then you’re the crazy uncle.”
- When I go to the movies, I need noise. I need popcorn noise, people noise, noise noise.”
- “Men lie the most, women tell the biggest lies. A man lie is, ‘I was at Kevin’s house.’ A woman lie is like, ‘It’s your baby.'”
- “I think it’s better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier.”
- “I always tell people, ‘If you want to know what it’s like to be black, it’s like this: when you’re born, you get a felony.'”
- “When you meet somebody for the first time, you’re not meeting them. You’re meeting their representative.”
- “I like having nice conversations with a man that ends with, ‘What are you doing later?'”
- “The President of the United States should have to get up every day and tell the American people, ‘I did the best I could.'”
- “Only in America can you be pro-death penalty, pro-war, pro-unmanned drone bombs, pro-nuclear weapons, and still call yourself ‘pro-life.'”
- “There are people who got way too much confidence and not enough skill.”
- “If you’re black, America is like Alcatraz. You can swim, but you can’t hide.”
- I love music. Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.”
- “Relationships are hard, but marriage is like a full-time job. It’s like being in the postal service. You just go round and round.”
- “I think all bullets should cost five thousand dollars… five thousand dollars per bullet. You know why? Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollars, there would be no more innocent bystanders.”
- “I’d always end up broken down on the highway. When I stood there trying to flag someone down, nobody stopped. But when I pushed my own car, other drivers would get out and push with me. If you want help, help yourself.”
- “When you’re in a relationship, you’re always surrounded by a ring of circumstances… joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.”
- “Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work.”
- “We got so much food in America we’re allergic to food. Allergic to food! Hungry people ain’t allergic to sh-t. You think anyone in Rwanda’s got a f—ing lactose intolerance?!”
- “I think of myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.”
- “You don’t need a critic to tell you people aren’t laughing.”
- “I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven’t tried that for a while. Maybe this time it’ll work.”
- “Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to.”
- “You know it’s a bad school when the school mascot is also on the endangered species list.”
- “Comedy is the only job you can have where you can use everything you know.”
- “My first car was a motorcycle.”
- “I was born a suspect. I can walk down any street in America and women will clutch their purses tighter, hold onto their Mace, lock their car doors.”
- “People always say children act up the most before they go to sleep, and I think that’s true because right before I go to bed, I always want to get in a fight.”
- “I always believed that if you’re black in America, you’re always going to be fighting racism.”
- “There’s a reason it’s called ‘girls gone wild’ and not ‘women gone wild’. When girls go wild, they show their tits. When women go wild, they kill men and drown their kids in a tub.”
- “In marriage, you got three rings: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.”
- “I think of myself as a writer who can perform his own material.”
- “If your kid needs a role model and you ain’t it, you’re both f—ed.”
- “Only in America does the government pay farmers not to grow food, pay airlines not to fly, pay people not to work, and then tax you to pay for it.”
- “I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven’t tried that for a while. Maybe this time it’ll work.”
- “The Oscars are such a silly thing. They’re not about who’s the best, but who’s popular that year.”
- “The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.”
- “A sense of humor is great – it goes a long, long way in a marriage.”
- “I always say comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.”
- “I think it’s better to have ideas. You can change an idea; changing a belief is trickier.”
- “You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it’s your last. Bullshit. Life is long. You’re probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you’re gonna have to live with the choices you make for the next fifty years.”
- “If you want to know what it’s like to be black, it’s like this: when you’re born, you get a felony.”
- “When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they’re crazy, because ‘sacrifice’ infers that there was something better to do than being with your children.”
- “Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everybody else.”
- “I’m not saying he should have killed her, but I understand.”
- “You don’t pay taxes – they take taxes.”
- “I think all bullets should cost five thousand dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollars, there would be no more innocent bystanders.”
- “I used to have horrible cars, because I never had a car payment. Now there’s something about a car payment, you know? You just got better credit all of a sudden. People start respecting you more.”
- “There’s a reason it’s called ‘girls gone wild’ and not ‘women gone wild’. When girls go wild, they show their tits; when women go wild, they kill men and drown their kids in a tub.”
- “Everything’s not black and white. We live in a world of gray.”
- “You know, some people say that kids are the future. That’s no excuse to throw the present away.”
- “I was born a suspect. I can walk down any street in America and women will clutch their purses tighter, hold onto their Mace, lock their car doors.”
- “I think of myself as a writer who can perform his own material.”
- “You don’t pay taxes. They take taxes.”
- “I think all drugs should be legal. I’m not going to do them, but I think it’s your right.”
- “When you meet somebody for the first time, you’re not meeting them. You’re meeting their representative.”
- “I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven’t tried that for a while. Maybe this time it’ll work.”
- “The President of the United States should have to get up every day and tell the American people, ‘I did the best I could.'”
- “The first Amendment protects you from the government, not from the audience. If you suck, the audience can boo.”
- “I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.”
- “I always tell people, ‘If you want to know what it’s like to be black, it’s like this: when you’re born, you get a felony.'”
- “School shootings were invented by blacks… and stolen by the white man.”
- “I think it’s better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier.”
- “I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven’t tried that for a while. Maybe this time it’ll work.”
- “Play for… the Jets!” (to USC quarterback Caleb Williams)
Conclusion
These quotes reflect Rock’s ability to blend humor with thought-provoking commentary, making him one of the most respected and influential voices in comedy.
