People don’t know what it’s like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.
DAVE CHAPPELLEI felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you’re a guy who generates money, people have a vested interest in controlling you.
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The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.
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I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.
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I have all these weird fantasies. Going coast-to-coast on my motorcycle and having random barbecues all over America. No show, no nothing.
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Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.
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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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The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.
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The higher up I went, the less happy I was.
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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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I’m cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.
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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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I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you’re a guy who generates money, people have a vested interest in controlling you.
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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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Comedians by and large are some of the most sensitive people on earth. Even if they’re socially callous.
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You’ve got to say ‘yes’ to your destiny. Life’s happening right now, look around you. There goes some life. Come on, Mamma, live!
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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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