Chris Rock Quotes

After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.

Chris Rock

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: comedian
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  • Birth: February 7, 1965

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Stand-up is still my favorite, but the podcast is a close second. It's so fun, and it's given me the opportunity to have three-hour conversations with people I wouldn't have otherwise been able to talk to. When I talked to Maynard Keenan from Tool, I almost couldn't believe it was happening.

Joe Rogan

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I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been more violence, more armed struggle? I know answers to some of that, but it seems to me it's an issue of faith, an abiding faith in some sort of great beyond, or great spirit, or even in the American dream.

John Edgar Wideman

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I love Chicago, but in a lot of ways it's a disappointment. You can work there for years and years, and because you're in Chicago, you don't get the recognition. It has some of the best theater in the country, but when they shoot a movie there, they bring in all their actors.

John Malkovich

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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While the documentary community is way ahead of Hollywood, it is still nowhere near where it needs to be. Filmmakers of color rarely get hired by the powerful production companies, and they are not getting supported enough by broadcasters and funders to tell their own stories.

Roger Ross Williams

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What I try to do - I mean 'try,' because you don't get there all the time - is to have impact with content. It's those moments in which you're trying to bring people beyond filmed theater. If I have an ambition, it's that.

Michael Mann

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Douglas Horton

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My dream role is Richard Pryor, no question about that. I'm a big Richard Pryor fan. I've always been intrigued about the darkness behind his comedy; that would always be a dream role for me.

Dorian Missick

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When I was a kid on the playground, fights were about who got to play Han Solo. He's just one of the best characters ever created.

Christopher Miller

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I don't play video games.

Clive Owen

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I got to work with Dustin Hoffman on a film called 'Billy Bathgate.' I got to work with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn and Bob Zemeckis on 'Death Becomes Her.' There are still a few actors out there that I would like to work with.

Bruce Willis

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A woman's whole life is spent making chicken curry while her husband works. Then, any time he likes, he can kick her out.

Asma Jahangir

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