The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.
DAVE CHAPPELLEFor 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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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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Money is the fuel for choices. Money gives me choices, so it’s not nothing, it’s something. But it’s not the end all, be all. There are other things in my life that I did not purchase with money that are very valuable.
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I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.
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There’s something about doing stand-up that’s cathartic.
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I care about the work I do. But I’m not going to say that money’s not an issue.
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Comedians by and large are some of the most sensitive people on earth. Even if they’re socially callous.
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Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I’m seven years late for work.
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Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.
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You got to be careful of the company you keep.
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If you don’t have the right people around you and you’re moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself.
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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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Remember what the Bible says: He who is without sin, cast the first rock. And I shall smoketh it.
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They do what they do for money – that’s all. I don’t even know why you’re listening to me. I’ve done commercials for both Coke and Pepsi. Truth is, I can’t even taste the difference, but Pepsi paid me last, so there it is.
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Being famous is great, it’s not like bad or horrible or anything.
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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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