The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
DAVE CHAPPELLEListen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I’m seven years late for work.
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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 love the fact that I have a show where you can run over a kid and everyone busts out laughing.
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I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.
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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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It seems like there’s never enough famous white people among comic in Hollywood.
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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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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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The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.
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Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I’m seven years late for work.
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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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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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Fame for me is like a place, a country I’m taking a tour through.
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You got to be careful of the company you keep.
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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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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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