I love the fact that I have a show where you can run over a kid and everyone busts out laughing.
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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I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear – I’m not mad at anybody – not anymore.
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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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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 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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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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Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you’re interested in being funny, New York is the place to go.
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Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.
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All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high.
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The higher up I went, the less happy I was.
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Stand-up is the kind of gig that’ll show you where you’re at.
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They 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.
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You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.
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I have a very good life, a high quality of life. I have both money and time. No one has that.
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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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