The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
DAVE CHAPPELLEI 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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Everyone 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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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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You got to be careful of the company you keep.
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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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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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If I can make a teacher’s salary doing comedy, I think that’s better than being a teacher.
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The higher up I went, the less happy I was.
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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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Remember what the Bible says: He who is without sin, cast the first rock. And I shall smoketh it.
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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’m cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.
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The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It’s dismissive.
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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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Fame for me is like a place, a country I’m taking a tour through.
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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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