If I can make a teacher’s salary doing comedy, I think that’s better than being a teacher.
DAVE CHAPPELLEI 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 was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.
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Chivalry is dead. Women killed it.
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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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No matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone, you answer it.
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I’m famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can’t count on it.
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I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.
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All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high.
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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, be able to do something great in your life, you’re gonna have to realize your failures. You’re gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome 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 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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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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Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.
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I got a lot of positive people around me.
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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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