Fame for me is like a place, a country I’m taking a tour through.
DAVE CHAPPELLEIt seems like there’s never enough famous white people among comic in Hollywood.
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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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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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Constantly take inventory of what’s important to you.
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I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.
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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 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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For one year, I want to do this thing where I guest-star on as many television shows as I possibly can. I love television. The fact that television ultimately made me famous was very gratifying for me.
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Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.
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I got a lot of positive people around me.
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The kid is the best thing that ever happened to me.
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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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There’s something about doing stand-up that’s cathartic.
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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 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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The world can’t tell you who you are. You’ve just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.
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