60 Quotes by Tony Rock

I've always been into stand-up, and I always wanted to be a comic because it was like the dream job as a kid, and my brother, being the patriarch, he paved the way.

My brother nurtured the love of stand-up comedy in a skinny little black kid named Tony.

I will never be the comic that apologizes for telling a joke.

I can make anything in the room funny in a few seconds.

My first stand-up experience, like most comics, was horrible. I got booed offstage. I thought I was funnier than I was. But the walk from the back of the room to the stage was the most excited I'd ever been about anything in my life other than kissing a girl. That's how I knew I had to get back onstage and do it again.

I'm a skinny kid from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

Every day of my life is a dream goal.

Regular people laugh harder. Industry people are stuffy, very judgmental.

I have seven brothers and two sisters, so there was always a little friendly competition in the house. I don't think that's anything unusual with that many siblings.