I started when I was 14. I figured out that’s what I wanted to do when I was 14. Even when I was six, I can remember people telling me, “You’re gonna be a comedian,” and all this stuff.
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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I don’t normally talk about my religion publicly because I don’t want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful religion if you learn it the right way.
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The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It’s dismissive. “I don’t understand this person. So they’re crazy.” That’s bullshit. These people are not crazy. They strong people. Maybe their environment is a little sick.
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Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you’re interested in being funny, New York is the place to go.
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People don’t know what it’s like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.
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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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There’s something about doing stand-up that’s cathartic.
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Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.
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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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Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I’m seven years late for work.
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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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The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
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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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It seems like there’s never enough famous white people among comic in Hollywood.
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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 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 enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.
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I don’t want the money. I don’t want the drama. I just want to do my show. I want to have fun again.
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My father told me ‘Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.’
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I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you’re a guy who generates money, people have a vested interest in controlling you.
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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’m cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.
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The kid is the best thing that ever happened to me.
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Weed’s not as bad as everything else… ’cause weed is a background substance. You know what I mean, you can smoke some herb and still function. You ain’t crisp… but you’ll function.
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I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear – I’m not mad at anybody – not anymore.
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The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It’s dismissive.
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Stand-up is the kind of gig that’ll show you where you’re at.
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