Top 80 Tracy Morgan Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Live every week like it’s shark week.”

— Tracy Morgan

2. “If you don’t laugh, you’re going to cry and people are crying. That’s why I guess you have lots of people like comedians to keep us laughing.”

— Tracy Morgan

3. “Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken nuggets.”

— Tracy Morgan

4. “My father was the role model I looked up. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me he was still a rock star.”

— Tracy Morgan

5. “Having a daughter makes you see things in a different way. This is my only girl. So I don’t care what it takes to protect her. You can call it what you want to call it. As long as you treat her the same way I treat her, like my princess, I don’t mind.”

— Tracy Morgan

6. “I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I’m long gone my great-great-grandchildren can walk up to it and say, “That’s my ancestor.” That will be my legacy.”

— Tracy Morgan

7. “When a child is born, it’s born with a heart of gold, but the way of this world can turn that heart cold. I’m still a good person, and I thank God for that – He’s working with me on it.”

— Tracy Morgan

8. “The truth is, I’ve never thought of myself as the Michael Jordan of comedy. And that’s a good thing. You know why? Because I’m not. Wasn’t that Richard Pryor? Yes, it was. I know what I am: I’m funny!”

— Tracy Morgan

9. “I love this cornbread so much, I wanna take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant.”

— Tracy Morgan

10. “And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I’m a beautiful, black butterfly.”

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11. “It’s just, people recognize you for your work, you know? They love you for your work, and they judge you for your work. It’s awesome to have people quoting you. I love it.”

— Tracy Morgan

12. “I think the word ‘pregnant’ is funny.”

— Tracy Morgan

13. “Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.”

— Tracy Morgan

14. “I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.”

— Tracy Morgan

15. “Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses.”

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16. “I’m not really struggling about my career. The struggles are in my personal life. I can’t really pinpoint how long it took me to get where I’m at, and I didn’t care how long it was going to take, because it’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey.”

— Tracy Morgan

17. “My father said: “If you want to catch your girl cheating, you knock on the front door and run to the back, because he’s coming out the back.””

— Tracy Morgan

18. “The truth is if I had a gay son, I would love him just as much as if he was straight. I might have to try to love even more because I know of the difficulty that he would have in society.”

— Tracy Morgan

19. “I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it’s cool to have strong and powerful pets.”

— Tracy Morgan

20. “I’m from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. So, you grow up around police officers. Some of them are in your family, some of them you have encounters with. I had a young police officer we were friends with in our group.”

— Tracy Morgan

21. “Listen, Bruce Lee fought out of anger. That’s why they call it the ‘Fists of Fury.’ Michael Jackson danced with fury. I do stand up out of fury. I’m not mad at anybody. I’m not mad at any human being because I’m a human being.”

— Tracy Morgan

22. “To me, politics is a pile of tricks.”

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23. “I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.”

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24. “I’m old, and so busy with work, that I like to just stay home and get my sleep now. I try not to burn both ends of the candle.”

— Tracy Morgan

25. “I don’t do drama. I’m a comedian.”

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26. “Michael’s the ultimate entertainer. After Michael Jackson, it’s Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and Bruce Lee.”

— Tracy Morgan

27. “What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I’ve realized nothing lasts.”

— Tracy Morgan

28. “Martin Lawrence is one of my comedic heroes, and he’s a genius.”

— Tracy Morgan

29. “Stand-up don’t get no respect – it’s the hardest thing to do in show business. You don’t have no band and there’s no music.”

— Tracy Morgan

30. “I live life and I don’t take it for granted.”

— Tracy Morgan

31. “I don’t have a hateful bone in my body. I don’t believe anyone should be bullied or made to feel bad about who they are.”

— Tracy Morgan

32. “It’s very important to be in your child’s life and know what’s going on and be there with them.”

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33. “My sense of humor was a tool for me getting past my mother and father separating, my older brother having cerebral palsy, and the bullies in the schoolyard. I had to make them laugh to keep them off my ass. I brought that to my professional career.”

— Tracy Morgan

34. “The things I did on Saturday Night Live are going to stay as Saturday Night Live. You’ve never seen Eddie Murphy do a Gumby movie. There’s a lot more new material inside of me.”

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35. “A stand-up’s job is to hold the mirror up to society and to look at what we’re afraid of. That’s why we had shows like ‘All in the Family’ and ‘The Jeffersons.’ We made fun of ourselves then.”

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36. “You get somebody to crack a smile, that’s a beautiful thing.”

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37. “I love Ice Cube and Charlie Day. They’re brilliant men, great actors and very funny people.”

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38. “Make your judgments and then you don’t have to worry about it. You’re always going to have those people who are offended about every little thing.”

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39. “I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness – she made sure we was going to eat. She made sure we had Christmases. That was my mother. My father wasn’t there for that.”

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40. “I’m a big, big movie fan. I watch ‘The Ten Commandments’ and the original ‘Planet of the Apes’ every night.”

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41. “Being funny wasn’t a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.”

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42. “Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That’s where anything goes.”

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43. “I don’t even deal with politics. I just don’t believe in them. I think politics are politricks. My whole thing is power to the people. I don’t put my faith in any one man. I keep my faith in God. That’s where I keep my faith.”

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44. “I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am – just working.”

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45. “The actors are different, although I didn’t set out to be different. My inspiration came from people like Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence and Will Smith. The genre is what it is. My inspiration was drawn from great movies like 48 Hours, Bad Boys and Rush Hour.”

— Tracy Morgan

46. “When I was a young kid, my pops introduced me to it. He took me to Harlem, 145th and Edgecombe, to watch the filming of Claudine with James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll. That was my first taste of seeing a set and the cameras, and I was bit by the acting bug at a young age.”

— Tracy Morgan

47. “I just see myself as a short, dumpy guy with bad feet, and I’m passionate.”

— Tracy Morgan

48. “I had a great time working on ‘Saturday Night Live.’ It was one of the important times in my life.”

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49. “I’m around my kids every day. I’m regular. We’re a regular family. My wife cooks, she washes clothes, I read books, I pump my own gas, I get my own hair cut.”

— Tracy Morgan

50. “I love 30 Rock because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week.”

— Tracy Morgan