I care about the work I do. But I’m not going to say that money’s not an issue.
DAVE CHAPPELLEI 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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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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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 hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
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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’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 always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.
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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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It seems like there’s never enough famous white people among comic in Hollywood.
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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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Once you been performing on the streets you can conquer any venue.
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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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Chivalry is dead. Women killed it.
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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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The kid is the best thing that ever happened to me.
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Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.
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