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.
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.
More Dave Chappelle Quotes
-
-
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.
DAVE CHAPPELLE -
I support anyone’s right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?
DAVE CHAPPELLE -
The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.
DAVE CHAPPELLE -
I have all these weird fantasies. Going coast-to-coast on my motorcycle and having random barbecues all over America. No show, no nothing.
DAVE CHAPPELLE -
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.
DAVE CHAPPELLE -
When I’m on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that’s the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.
DAVE CHAPPELLE -
I’m famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can’t count on it.
DAVE CHAPPELLE -
I got a lot of positive people around me.
DAVE CHAPPELLE -
One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change.
DAVE CHAPPELLE -
The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.
DAVE CHAPPELLE -
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.
DAVE CHAPPELLE -
It seems like there’s never enough famous white people among comic in Hollywood.
DAVE CHAPPELLE -
The kid is the best thing that ever happened to me.
DAVE CHAPPELLE -
Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.
DAVE CHAPPELLE -
Stand-up is the kind of gig that’ll show you where you’re at.
DAVE CHAPPELLE