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Chris Rock Quotes

Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Famous You Sometimes Because

In the 1980s, there was no category to stick me in. 'He sounds too smart' is what I was hearing. I realized that I had to become a member of the school of what I call 'ugly acting.' Which meant I wanted to do what Dustin Hoffman did very successfully: to play character roles, but lead character roles.

Character School Smart Ugly Me Play

The truth is that health-care reform will always be a nuisance, with version 2.0 followed by next year's 2.1. As long as it boosts productivity, it's worth it.

Truth Truth Is Year Long Worth Will

We think we have to work because the advertising industry has elevated wants into needs. The newspapers and the television batter us incessantly with the latest 'must-haves', whether that's shoes, videogames or patio heaters. As a result, mums think they 'have' to work at Tesco in order to buy expensive trainers.

Work Shoes Advertising Think Result

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

Robert Anton Wilson

Corrupt Everybody Themselves Except

The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space.

Architecture Space You Know Actor

For a couple of years, being professional, I kind of questioned myself. Should I wear my false lashes or take the time I want to take so I can feel good when I go out on the field? Because nobody else was really doing that. And I thought, No: I'm not going to change what I believe I should look like to fit anybody else's standards.

Michelle Carter

Change Good Time Myself Feel Good

You're not supposed to have a favourite book - it's like children.

Michael Robotham

Children Book You Like Supposed

Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins.

Treasures Exchange Profits

When I started editing on my home computer, I said to myself, 'Well, I could be at home studying for a class or I could be at home editing a video.'

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Home Myself Said Editing Class Well

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

Don Miguel Ruiz

Truth Believe Assumptions See Take

If I can go three grandmothers back and find a slave, that means someone else can go three grandmothers back and find a slave owner. When you interrogate your histories, it forces you to rethink who you are and where you are.

Someone You Back Find I Can Three

I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.

Book Trying Write Idea Like Genre

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