Top 200 Chris Rock Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy.”

— Chris Rock

202. “Hollywood’s racist. Hollywood is sorority racist. It’s like – we like you, Rhonda, but you’re not a Kappa.”

— Chris Rock

203. “You don’t need a critic to tell you people aren’t laughing.”

— Chris Rock

204. “I want to really take chances. I want to be funny in a lot of different ways. I’d like to be great. I want to reach for greatness.”

— Chris Rock

205. “It used to take years to become a junkie. But crack cut that down to 37 minutes.”

— Chris Rock

206. “Welcome to the 77th and last Oscars.”

— Chris Rock

207. “A black man will be elected President of the United States. I’m sorry, that’s in the year 10,000.”

— Chris Rock

208. “The Democrats should have an empty chair on stage for the entire DNC, and when anyone asks who it belongs to, they can say Osama bin Laden.”

— Chris Rock

209. “I’m severely overrated. I’m just above a hack.”

— Chris Rock

210. “The thing about Barack Obama, just from being around him, is he’s cooler than the other politicians, but just nerdy enough to do the job. Like you can’t be really cool and be the president.”

— Chris Rock

211. “There’s no interference in stand-up. It’s all the things it’s hard to get in film: I get to have a wife, I get to have kids. I get to be sexual. I get to grow. I get to be a man.”

— Chris Rock

212. “I’ve seen women who don’t have great relationships with their dads, and it all comes down to this: You have to tell girls you love them every day.”

— Chris Rock

213. “People want what they want. And I guess that is a reason we have this big credit card problem and a lot of these foreclosures.”

— Chris Rock

214. “When you make comedy, you make it for the people and you try to have as many screenings and as many tests and you do focus groups and you read the cards and you try to give the people what they want in this comedy.”

— Chris Rock

215. “I try to stay with it and I try to stay in contact with comedians and just keep comedians in my life ’cause comedians are their own species. If you get away from them, especially as a comedian, I think it’s dangerous.”

— Chris Rock

216. “Guys play characters that won’t grow up and something catastrophic happens and they have to grow up to save the day – that’s pretty much what today’s comedy is about.”

— Chris Rock

217. “Nobody really wants to be a stand-up, they want to get on TV.”

— Chris Rock

218. “I get approached to do shows all the time. There’s a lot of money in sitcoms, but I’ve never been the kind of guy who wanted to do one. I don’t think people want to see me saying “Honey, I’m home.” It’s just not my thing.”

— Chris Rock

219. “Tomorrow is more sure than just about anything else in the entire world.”

— Chris Rock

220. “Learn how to cook. Read books that will educate you. Get an education. Get a career. And support yourself. And live in a section of town that isn’t conducive to violence.”

— Chris Rock

221. “Standup comedians are attracted to one another because of their faults. So we’re all kind of messed up in the same way, and once I was around a group of people that saw the world in a different way, it’s like this is where I need to be.”

— Chris Rock

222. “A comedy club is a place where you work out material, you’re trying material.”

— Chris Rock

223. “I think my best work is when I’m kind of in charge.”

— Chris Rock

224. “Carol Leifer is funny, really funny.”

— Chris Rock

225. “I literally don’t know what I’m going to do next. That’s successful.”

— Chris Rock

226. “I think anybody in front of a crowd is a comedian.”

— Chris Rock

227. “Funny is only something that others know about you – you can’t be funny by yourself.”

— Chris Rock

228. “By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer.”

— Chris Rock

229. “Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I’m famous.”

— Chris Rock

230. “Artistically I’m curious. But in life? No. I can go to a restaurant and order the same thing for 10 years.”

— Chris Rock

231. “Two hours of sparkling entertainment spread out over a four-hour show.”

— Chris Rock

232. “I think if I were to get as big as I could get, it does change your mind-state. I think like the little man. I think like the underdog. I don’t want to change that.”

— Chris Rock

233. “Here’s what I knew about doing a play: I knew it would make me a better actor.”

— Chris Rock

234. “I’m old enough to remember when there were no black quarterbacks – there were no blacks on TV. I hope my son or daughter doesn’t have to be as fixated on race as I am, because he or she will grow up in freer times.”

— Chris Rock

235. “Being a comedian is a lot like being an athlete. If you’re Carl Lewis and you’re the fastest, then no matter what you’re the fastest.”

— Chris Rock

236. “You only know that you’re smart because you’re around dumb people from time to time!”

— Chris Rock

237. “Karaoke isn’t fair when you’re a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjoying themselves, and I’m a professional funny guy.”

— Chris Rock

238. “I’ll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.”

— Chris Rock

239. “People basically aren’t that racist. They want their laughs. If I make a white guy laugh, he’s gonna come see me. He’s not gonna go see the white guy who doesn’t make him laugh just because that guy is white.”

— Chris Rock

240. “Stand-up is the only career like that where once you get really big at it, people kind of encourage you not to do it.”

— Chris Rock

241. “My goal in life was to host the MTV Awards, because it’s the awards show that Prince sang on, and that was the awards show that Eddie Murphy hosted and Arsenio hosted.”

— Chris Rock

242. “School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.”

— Chris Rock

243. “I like the tradition of the Oscars. I like that some of the greatest comedians ever have hosted the show.”

— Chris Rock

244. “I’ll go with the guy with one house. The guy with one house is scared about losing his house.”

— Chris Rock