A lot of comics aren't their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn't always ranting and raving. What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.

There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.

For some reasons, I have WWE wrestlers tweeting me all the time. Like, my biggest fans. Why they can connect with my love for Meryl Streep, I don't know.

I thought it would be funny to go to my Korean dry cleaner and ask her about my head shot, as if it's the most important thing in the world, and as if it's something that everyone should weigh on because it's important to me.

Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.

I would not have a career without Facebook and Twitter. That's the truth.

I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some sort of impact. And for me that turned out to be comedy.

I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.

I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York. We weren't, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.

Dad had a music store, and he'd often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.

Kids need a happy household. They need to be loved and supported in their dreams. And I don't think you can make your kids' dreams your own. They need you to support them in their dreams.

You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back.

My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I've already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.

I'd like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.

Humans love sex, we need sex, it's how we connect, it reminds us we're alive, it's the third most basic human need, after food and good movie popcorn.

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.

I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.

Change is such hard work.

Gentlemen, start your egos.

I can't be funny if my feet don't feel right.

Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.