Fame for me is like a place, a country I’m taking a tour through.
DAVE CHAPPELLEFame for me is like a place, a country I’m taking a tour through.
DAVE CHAPPELLEI’m famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can’t count on it.
DAVE CHAPPELLEThe mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.
DAVE CHAPPELLEComedy is a very approval-oriented field.
DAVE CHAPPELLEWeed’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.
DAVE CHAPPELLEThey 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.
DAVE CHAPPELLEThe way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.
DAVE CHAPPELLEIf you don’t have the right people around you and you’re moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself.
DAVE CHAPPELLEAll white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high.
DAVE CHAPPELLEWhen I’m on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that’s the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.
DAVE CHAPPELLEThe kid is the best thing that ever happened to me.
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.
DAVE CHAPPELLEI have all these weird fantasies. Going coast-to-coast on my motorcycle and having random barbecues all over America. No show, no nothing.
DAVE CHAPPELLENo matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone, you answer it.
DAVE CHAPPELLEI just like seeing people. I just like meeting people. I like finding out new walks of life and new ideas.
DAVE CHAPPELLEThe worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It’s dismissive.
DAVE CHAPPELLE