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May 6, 2005 3:43 pm US/Eastern

Chris Rock Defends Athletic Steroid Use

Deems Self "Pretty Scrawny"

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Click to enlarge 1 of 1: Chris Rock talks with 60 Minutes' Ed Bradley (File)
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Chris Rock is ready to get juiced. "I'm pretty scrawny," the actor-comedian says in the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine, on newsstands Friday.

"If I was playing (football), I'd definitely be on steroids," he added. "You know, most people in the world, if you told them they could take a pill and be better at their job, they'd take the pill."

Rock co-stars with Adam Sandler in the upcoming "The Longest Yard," a remake of the 1974 movie about prison inmates who challenge the prison guards to a football game.

It's Rock's first movie since he hosted the Oscars in February. The 39-year-old continues to say he would do the show again if they asked him and the time was right.

"Doing the show got a bit of the chip off my shoulder," he says. "When you're a comedian that curses, you're always a second-class citizen to the guys who don't curse. They say, `You're big, but so-and-so's a family comedian.' It's almost like porn — nobody admits to liking it, but it's a billion-dollar industry."

"The Longest Yard" hits theaters May 27.