When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

He is best known for playing the role of Detective James Carter in the Rush Hour film series and Danny McDaniels in Silver Linings Playbook. He along with Jackie Chan later starred in the 1998 martial arts action comedy Rush Hour and its sequels Rush Hour 2 and Rush Hour 3 in which he played James Carter an abrasive wise-cracking detective. Tucker is good friends with fellow Rush Hour star Jackie Chan and was also close friends with the singer Michael Jackson introducing and dancing with him at his 30th Anniversary Special and appearing in Jackson's video "You Rock My World" from his 2001 album Invincible and attending Jackson's memorial service.

He came to prominence in the 1995 film Friday alongside Ice Cube and then appeared in Luc Besson's The Fifth Element before beginning work on the highly successful Rush Hour films. Christopher "Chris" Tucker (born August 31 1971) is an American actor and comedian.