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• I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

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• I couldn’t imagine not having clean water.

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•  A lot of directors, they’re creative, but they’re different.

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• Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money – that really doesn’t interest me.

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• I do a lot of traveling around the world.

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• I love traveling. It not only opens my mind up, but it also allows me to use my fame in another way through humanitarian works and stuff, and being an influence around the world.

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• I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

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•  I tell people that stand-up’s like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down – or at least three times a week to get it down.

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• I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I’ve done, I’m going to do a lot of great work in the future.

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• I think my life is a movie and your life reflects your work.

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• I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie roles you wanna pick. I think if you’ve got an interesting life, you wanna do interesting movies about interesting things.

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• I travel. I do a lot of traveling around the world.

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• I want to keep working, I want to keep doing my humanitarian stuff around the world, shining light on different places that have problems. Keep making movies, make people laugh.

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• It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.

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• Making people laugh is giving, and it’s healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It’s a good thing.

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• This country is just that great that the opportunities are there for a Hispanic president, a black president or any other race for a president, yes.

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• When you’re first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you’re young and you’re black, you do a bad movie and you’re through.

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• You don’t know who you messing with man, I slap people for fun. That’s what I do man! You wanna play rough, huh, I kill for fun!

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• You know, we’re missing so much as African-Americans and we should be concerned about what’s going on in Africa.

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• You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don’t say nothin’ ’bout the money. ‘Hi, how ya doin’? How’s ya mama doing?’ Man, how’s my money doin’?

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Chris Tucker (20)

Birth:	31st August, 1971
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Comedian

About

Christopher "Chris" Tucker was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He is known for playing the role of Smokey in Friday and as Detective James Carter in the Rush Hour film series. He has also appeared in Luc Besson's The Fifth Element, for which he received acclaim. He made his cinematic debut in House Party 3, and gained greater film recognition alongside rapper Ice Cube in the 1995 film Friday.  In 1997, he co-starred with Charlie Sheen in Money Talks, and alongside Bruce Willis in The Fifth Element.

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