Top 200 Chris Rock Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “If you live below your means, you can turn down stuff all the time.”

— Chris Rock

152. “I had always been – everybody kind of likes comedy. I was very interested in comedy, beyond just liking it. I had friends that took apart radios; I wanted to take apart jokes.”

— Chris Rock

153. “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.”

— Chris Rock

154. “When people try to read between the lines – critics, they have a job. Their job is to make something bigger than it is.”

— Chris Rock

155. “You know, you get famous and you work in these weird jobs and you don’t have a lot in common with people. But once you have kids, you have everything in common with everybody.”

— Chris Rock

156. “People are always going to, you know, find something wrong with people who are not the exact same as them. That’s just what it is. Black, white, short, tall, religions, whatever. People are bad.”

— Chris Rock

157. “I see guys who can’t make 10 percent of what I make, and yet they have four Bentleys, three houses, and four bodyguards.”

— Chris Rock

158. “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 fourty.”

— Chris Rock

159. “Gas is getting so expensive I’m gonna ride a mexican to work.”

— Chris Rock

160. “Babies don’t know who’s rich and who’s poor. You love ’em and they’re happy.”

— Chris Rock

161. “Though part of me had always wanted to be a comedian, another part of me had always wanted to be Bryant Gumbel or Dan Rather.”

— Chris Rock

162. “There’s a difference between racism and “I don’t know any better. I’m clueless.” Racism is like, “I’m trying to make you feel bad.” That’s racism.”

— Chris Rock

163. “My dad worked every day. I didn’t get into show business to work every day. So the fact that most days I get to like, spend really good time with my kids – that’s what success is to me.”

— Chris Rock

164. “Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.”

— Chris Rock

165. “If you’re the president you only have two jobs: peace and money.”

— Chris Rock

166. “I think it’s better to have ideas.”

— Chris Rock

167. “A white boy that makes C’s in college can make it to the White House.”

— Chris Rock

168. “The best part is just having a partner. There is no real worst part. I’m not going to say there’s a worst part. I mean I’m a comedian – comedians like to work alone. So maybe I’m not the ideal guy to be married to, in that sense.”

— Chris Rock

169. “Before I was a comedian, I thought the coolest thing that would happen to me was to be a teenager. Boy, was I wrong.”

— Chris Rock

170. “You can’t fake comedy – it’s not like a movie, where a director can just cast a pretty face.”

— Chris Rock

171. “I like talking about subjects that aren’t funny in the first place and making them funny. So anything down and depressing is something I’ll talk about.”

— Chris Rock

172. “Hollywood’s just not funny.”

— Chris Rock

173. “A comedian has to live in his head. All this comedy comes from a lonely place. When you’re surrounded by an entourage, you’re not living in your head.”

— Chris Rock

174. “I love seeing black people do normal things, being judged as normal people.”

— Chris Rock

175. “I’m like the Hulk on stage. It’s way over the top. That’s Bizarro Chris. Sometimes I get off stage and go What did I say?! I’ll watch one of my stand-up specials a year later and go Eww, that was mean.”

— Chris Rock

176. “I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.”

— Chris Rock

177. “Emotional affairs, those are the only real affairs; those are the real ones.”

— Chris Rock

178. “You want to track Hollywood careers, look in the real estate section. You see a guy buy a house that costs $6 million, and you can literally start counting the days until he starts doing crappy movies.”

— Chris Rock

179. “Right now, my job is that I’m like an ambulance chaser. I’ve got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.”

— Chris Rock

180. “When a musical act performs, the black audience goes crazy for all the stuff, the album cuts, everything. White audiences, they’re nice and all, but they’re not going to lose it until they get the hits. Comedy is the same thing.”

— Chris Rock

181. “I can see the humor in just about any situation. After I lost my dad, I realized that none of us should take things too seriously, because everything except death works itself out.”

— Chris Rock

182. “There’s not one reference in that thing that doesn’t play. People deal with emotions in music all the time, but comedians are always talking about what they see. But we seldom talk about what we feel.”

— Chris Rock

183. “You just got to be really logical when you’re a comedian – to a fault. Like a lawyer’s got to believe in the law.”

— Chris Rock

184. “An entertainer’s reputation as a live act is the most valuable thing he or she can have. If people know you give good shows, you’ll never be broke for the rest of your life.”

— Chris Rock

185. “Kennedy didn’t beat Nixon. Satire beat Nixon.”

— Chris Rock

186. “I’m never proper or careful, but I never curse in front of my mother, either.”

— Chris Rock

187. “Movies have takes. But plays are like life – you don’t really get takes.”

— Chris Rock

188. “I want my name to be a brand in comedy. I hope my name stands for comedic excellence.”

— Chris Rock

189. “I mean no disrespect to anything I did before.”

— Chris Rock

190. “Dude, I didn’t say Jude Law can’t act. I didn’t say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he’s in every movie.”

— Chris Rock

191. “A sense of humor is great – it goes a long, long way in a marriage.”

— Chris Rock

192. “Bill Cosby was the first comedian I was exposed to, because he doesn’t curse.”

— Chris Rock

193. “My movies are okay, but they’re not my specials.”

— Chris Rock

194. “Just to be clear, Ray Rice was not fired for beating his wife. He was fired because a video of him beating his wife was released.”

— Chris Rock

195. “Now that I have children, I realize taking care of my children is more fun than anything in the whole world.”

— Chris Rock

196. “There’s always a moment in any stand-up show I do where people are booing. They kinda boo a premise. And then I bail myself out with a joke. But it’s like trying to do movies where there’s a dramatic undertone.”

— Chris Rock

197. “I’m a rap comedian the same way Bill Cosby is a jazz comedian, Cosby’s laid back. I’m like, bang, bang bang, right into it.”

— Chris Rock

198. “For the most part, comedy is the only fair part of show business.”

— Chris Rock

199. “No film critic’s going to say it, but ‘Madagascar 3’ is better than ‘The Artist.’”

— Chris Rock

200. “I’ll probably pay more attention to the musicians in the pit than the stars because they’re the closest you’re going to get to normal people in the audience.”

— Chris Rock