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.
DAVE CHAPPELLEEveryone 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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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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Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I’m seven years late for work.
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It seems like there’s never enough famous white people among comic in Hollywood.
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I support anyone’s right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?
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The kid is the best thing that ever happened to me.
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I have a very good life, a high quality of life. I have both money and time. No one has that.
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Fame for me is like a place, a country I’m taking a tour through.
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One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change.
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Being famous is great, it’s not like bad or horrible or anything.
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I don’t want anything bad to happen to the United States, but if North Korea ever drops a nuclear bomb on this country, I swear to God, I hope it lands in Hartford.
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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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I’m cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.
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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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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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The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It’s dismissive.
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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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I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it.
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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.
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Constantly take inventory of what’s important to you.
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I got married recently. So far, so good. Less sex than I expected, but other than that, it’s a pretty good lifestyle.
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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 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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Remember what the Bible says: He who is without sin, cast the first rock. And I shall smoketh it.
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I have all these weird fantasies. Going coast-to-coast on my motorcycle and having random barbecues all over America. No show, no nothing.
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I got a lot of positive people around me.
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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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