You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.
DAVE CHAPPELLEYou know you must be doing something right if old people like you.
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I got a lot of positive people around me.
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There’s something about doing stand-up that’s cathartic.
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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 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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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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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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I got married recently. So far, so good. Less sex than I expected, but other than that, it’s a pretty good lifestyle.
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It seems like there’s never enough famous white people among comic in Hollywood.
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You got to be careful of the company you keep.
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I’m happier in the way a guy gets happier when he starts to mature. It doesn’t make things easier, but I’m so much better at handling them.
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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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When I’m on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that’s the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.
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The higher up I went, the less happy I was.
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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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Stand-up is the kind of gig that’ll show you where you’re at.
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My wife asked me once if I weren’t a comedian, what I would do. I couldn’t answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else.
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I don’t normally talk about my religion publicly because I don’t want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful religion if you learn it the right way.
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I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds.
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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 worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It’s dismissive. “I don’t understand this person. So they’re crazy.” That’s bullshit. These people are not crazy. They strong people. Maybe their environment is a little sick.
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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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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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Once you been performing on the streets you can conquer any venue.
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The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.
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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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