If I can make a teacher’s salary doing comedy, I think that’s better than being a teacher.
DAVE CHAPPELLEWhen I’m on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that’s the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.
More Dave Chappelle Quotes
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You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.
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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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The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.
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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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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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I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it.
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I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.
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Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I’m seven years late for work.
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I got a lot of positive people around me.
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It seems like there’s never enough famous white people among comic in Hollywood.
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Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.
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Being famous is great, it’s not like bad or horrible or anything.
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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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Fame for me is like a place, a country I’m taking a tour through.
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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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