People don’t know what it’s like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.
DAVE CHAPPELLEOne 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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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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The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It’s dismissive.
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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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It seems like there’s never enough famous white people among comic in Hollywood.
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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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No matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone, you answer it.
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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 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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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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I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.
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The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.
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All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high.
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There’s something about doing stand-up that’s cathartic.
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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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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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