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Tracy Morgan Biography

Tracy Jamal Morgan (born November 10, 1968) is an American actor and comedian best known for his seven seasons as a cast member on Saturday Night Live (1996–2003) and 30 Rock (2006–2013). He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2009 for his work on 30 Rock. He has appeared in numerous films as an actor and voice actor.

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I'm from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. So, you grow up around police officers. Some of them are in your family, some of them you have encounters with. I had a young police officer we were friends with in our group.

Bed, Brooklyn, Family, Growing Up, Officers, Police

I'm old, and so busy with work, that I like to just stay home and get my sleep now. I try not to burn both ends of the candle.

Ends, Home, Sleep, Trying, Work

Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses.

Light, News, Speed, Travels

I don't really take the college tours and all that. Those are young people and I'm quite sure they're mature enough to understand, but they haven't seen or lived real life yet.

College, People, Real, Take, Understand

If you don't laugh, you're going to cry and people are crying. That's why I guess you have lots of people like comedians to keep us laughing.

Comedian, Guess, Keep, Laughing, Like, People

When I was a young kid, my pops introduced me to it. He took me to Harlem, 145th and Edgecombe, to watch the filming of Claudine with James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll. That was my first taste of seeing a set and the cameras, and I was bit by the acting bug at a young age.

Acting, Age, Claudine, Kids, Set, Took

I'm around my kids every day. I'm regular. We're a regular family. My wife cooks, she washes clothes, I read books, I pump my own gas, I get my own hair cut.

Book, Clothes, Cutting, Kids, Washes, Wife

As a child, I was able to know that I wanted a better life.

Able, Better Life, Child, Children, Know, Life

Everything I talk about in stand-up is my experiences as an American, as a father, as a husband, as a black man, as a human being.

Everything, Experiences, Father, Human, Husband, Men

I don't need no stool and mike stand. I don't need all of that to be funny. I've been funny my whole life. This is a gift God gave me. I spread love wherever I'm at. I'm like Marvin Gaye.

Gaye, God, Needs, Stools, Whole, Whole Life

And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly.

Beautiful, Black, Butterfly, Cocoon

Stand-up is my foundation. That's where it started at. And I love it because it's personal. It's mine. It's all me. It's my experience in life.

Experience, Foundation, Life, Love, Mines, Personal

The truth is, I've never thought of myself as the Michael Jordan of comedy. And that's a good thing. You know why? Because I'm not. Wasn't that Richard Pryor? Yes, it was. I know what I am: I'm funny!

Comedy, Jordan, Know, Pryor, Truth Is, Yes

Having a daughter makes you see things in a different way. This is my only girl. So I don't care what it takes to protect her. You can call it what you want to call it. As long as you treat her the same way I treat her, like my princess, I don't mind.

Daughter, Girl, Mind, Princess, Same, Treat

I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.

Dark, Greatest, Place, Sometimes, Stuff

I don't do drama. I'm a comedian.

Comedian, Drama

My father was the role model I looked up. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me he was still a rock star.

Dad, Father, Patterned, Stars

Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes.

Anything Goes, Clubs, Ground, Sacred

I give [Barack Obama] a 10 [on a scale of 1 to 10] because he's not God, and he inherited a couple of wars, and a financial mess. I want to see him curse somebody out on TV. You can't finesse a bull. He's gotta throw down. He's in the shark tank.

Couple, Financial, See, Sharks, Tank, War

Live every week like it's shark week.

Like, Rocks, Shark, Sharks, Week

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