60 Quotes by Tony Rock

My father drove a truck, and my mother was a school teacher. They wanted their children to go the traditional route: get good grades, go to college, get a job.

If I modeled myself after anybody, it probably would have been Richard Pryor.

Nothing's given in the Rock family.

My older brothers have their own children, and they have to go to soccer practice and football practice on the weekends. They're doing their thing and on the weekends, and I'm on the road. The busier we get, the less time we get to see each other. That's why, when we see each other, it's really, really kind of special.

Trouble was almost inevitable. I grew up with so many at-risk kids. Kids had things go wrong.

I saw my father every day of my childhood.