Tracy Morgan

“Most people don't know what's happening around them because they're just speeding through life. And before they know it, they're just old. So I just try to slow it down.”

“When you look at the artists who have come up through 'Billboard' over the years, it's incredible.”

“You will be surprised but I do a lot of studying and I watch National Geographic.”

“You can't hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I'm just a comedian. My job is like Archie Bunker.”

“So I think all comedians are earning their wings into heaven. We're all going to heaven, but everybody's not going to get their wings. Some people are just going to be regular angels. Doing cleanup, janitor work. In heaven, I'm going to sit on the couch with Oprah.”

“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.”

“People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We're losing all of our communication skills.”

“I'm not a child star, but you could say that I've grown up on TV. I went from being an unknown, down-and-out comic from Brooklyn and the Bronx to being a regular character on a major network comedy called 'Martin.' From there I went on to become the most notable black comic on 'Saturday Night Live' since Eddie Murphy.”

“I mellowed out; my daughter mellowed me out, and I don't get mad at anyone.”

“I've got friends who want money but don't want to do anything to earn it.”

“I love working with Alec Baldwin. He's one of the five greatest actors ever to live.”

“There's ups and downs of any job. If you worked at the post office, there's ups and downs. You have your good days, and you have your bad days. If you're a housewife, you have your good days, and you have your bad days.”

“In New York, we get down. In L.A., everybody's pretty much standing around like they're at a keg stand. You got to get the party started, so I just take my shirt off.”

“I think people would want to see Tracy Morgan host 'Saturday Night Live.'”

“Where I came from, people couldn't afford to go to the theatre.”

“What you have to understand is that my thing is not glamour. I love stretch marks and C-section scars and all of that. I'm a grown man. You don't gotta put on no makeup with me.”

“People walked out on Richard Pryor and he's the funniest man alive.”

“I'm a human being. I feel all emotions. I'm not just happy all the time. Sometimes, I'm sad and feel the blues. Sometimes I even want to feel the blues. Sometimes, you want to feel down.”

“Black people dance well because we start early - there's music being played everywhere. White people? They don't start dancing until they get to college, and by then, it's too late; the bottom don't move with the top no matter how hard they try.”

“We need to learn to laugh at ourselves because when you don't laugh, you cry. And I don't feel like crying.”