Tony Rock Quotes

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Like everybody, I started out doing 'bringer' shows - t

Like everybody, I started out doing ‘bringer’ shows – the kind where if you show up with a certain number of people, you get to perform. Sometimes I would actually pay strangers off the street to come in and see my set.
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I haven‘t been offstage for more than two days since I started doing comedy.
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It’s too expensive to eat healthy. You ever go to Whole Foods? A carrot is, like, seven dollars. McDonald‘s got double cheeseburgers for a dollar.
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I keep saying this – and I keep putting it off because I get busy – but I keep saying one year I’m gonna tape our Thanksgiving dinner or, like, our Christmas dinner and maybe put it on my website just for people to see how funny it really is, how much fun it really, really is.
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Mexicans work so hard. Jamaicans are like, ‘Hey mon. Take it easy. You work too ‘ard.’ Sneak into the country Sunday night, working Monday morning.
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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.
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Any club has more than enough comics, so if you’re not there every night talking to the booker, you’re not going to get on. You have to be there more than they are.
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I talk to the audience like I talk to my friends on the stoop.
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I talk about everythingpolitics, the economy; the news will give you more material than you can ever use. But relationships? That’s the ongoing battle. You talk about men and women, and across-the-board everyone can relate to that.
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My family is just naturally funny.
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There’s nothing like the freedom of being in a roomful of strangers and trying to make them laugh… You either sink or swim. It’s like verbal boxing.
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I love to eat. I’m a foodie, and when I’m on vacation, I want to be a foodie with their culture, with their foods.
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Women do so much aesthetically to attract men that they sometimes overlook the simple things, like cooking.
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I can make anything in the room funny in a few seconds.
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We weren’t rich by any means, but we had each other, so we were rich in family. When you don’t have a lot, it just fuels that creativity. So it manifested in us doing characters of people in the neighborhood or doing impersonations of Mom and Dad. The comedy bug, it takes over.
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If you’re at the Comedy Store or the Laugh Factory or the Improv, even two minutes helps. You never know who might be in the audience.
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You got to be willing to be knocked out to win a fight. You got to be willing to get booed off the stage to get a standing ovation.
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New York is home. It’s so unique that there is no other place like it.
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You can live with diabetes. It’s not the worst thing to have, but you have to manage yourself and have some self control.
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My brother nurtured the love of stand-up comedy in a skinny little black kid named Tony.
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Regular people laugh harder. Industry people are stuffy, very judgmental.
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I know I’m going to be doing standup for the rest of my life.
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When you’re doing standup, it’s just you. It’s your written jokes. You perform it however your personality is.
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My pops, the whole time while I was growing up, was conscious of what we ate. He made sure we exercised and had time outside. He knew having a healthy lifestyle meant exercise.
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Never steal jokes.
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What amazes me is that the whole world is fascinated by Kim Kardashian. What’s her talent?
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I’m a skinny kid from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
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Ask Frank Stallone how far your name gets you.
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When I was growing up with Chris, I was the little brother that was kind of annoying: ‘Can I come?’ ‘Get out of here.’ ‘Can I play?’ ‘Get out of here.’ So that’s our relationship. I just do my own thing. I leave him alone.
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I went to a wedding in St. Maarten, and we took a boat ride over to Anguilla for a day. We went to a beach that had the whitest sand I had ever seen before in my life. I was in the water up to the middle of my chest and could still see my feet. It was the clearest water.
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Nobody needs a chitlin.
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Once school let out every year, my siblings and I would get packed into a station wagon to drive to South Carolina to see my grandparents for summer vacation. If school let out on Friday, we were probably in the station wagon no later than Sunday morning, and we would make stops along the way.
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Sometimes I might get in the door a little quicker than somebody else because of my last name. But if I’m not prepared, I’m not afforded the luxury of, ‘Oh, he’s a little green.’ It’s, ‘He’s not talented,’ where the next guy can have a bad day.
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I hate when rappers do interviews. They say stuff like, ‘If I wasn’t doing this, I’d be dead or in jail.’ Like, damn, those are the only two options? What about managing Kinkos?
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