There’s something about doing stand-up that’s cathartic.
DAVE CHAPPELLEI enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.
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When I’m on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that’s the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.
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You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.
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Stand-up is the kind of gig that’ll show you where you’re at.
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I have angst in my life, but I’m like anybody. We all have angst in our lives that we pick up and fidget with and then we put down and look at some other things that make us feel good or enjoy our lives.
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I love the fact that I have a show where you can run over a kid and everyone busts out laughing.
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For one year, I want to do this thing where I guest-star on as many television shows as I possibly can. I love television. The fact that television ultimately made me famous was very gratifying for me.
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I’m happier in the way a guy gets happier when he starts to mature. It doesn’t make things easier, but I’m so much better at handling them.
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If I can make a teacher’s salary doing comedy, I think that’s better than being a teacher.
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It seems like there’s never enough famous white people among comic in Hollywood.
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I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.
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All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high.
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I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.
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Everyone around me says, You’re a genius! You’re great! That’s your voice! But I’m not sure if they’re right.
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The higher up I went, the less happy I was.
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No matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone, you answer it.
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