Chi McBride Quotations

If you look hard enough, you can find race issues and racism in everything. I know people who say, 'See, I don't play pool 'cuz that's where the white ball chase the black ball off the table. So I prefer bowling, where the big black ball knock down the white pins with the red necks.'

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did

I've had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal

I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus

There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate

You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes

In movies, I have had the opportunity of working with some of the people that I respect very much

Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication

Someone said to me today, ‘Everybody loved PUSING DAISIES,’ I said, ‘No, they didn’t— that’s why I’m here today talking about a new show.’

When you wear a fresh pair of shoes, you feel like you can never die. You feel like you're gonna live forever.

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment

It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television

It is a different genre-a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television.

With Boston Public, you create a character and you have to find what their range of emotion will be, what kind of individual you are dealing with.